How should wāw in 99:8 and 100:7 be distinguished?
Supplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt
- The first is an oath wāw and the second a circumstantial wāw without a pronoun
- Both wāws negate the statement
- The first is superfluous and the second invariably an oath
- Both coordinate, but the first links contrasting conditions and the second a related testimony