LessonsSupplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyātQuiz

وَالْعَادِيَاتِ ضَبْحًا ... فَالْمُورِيَاتِ قَدْحًا ... فَالْمُغِيرَاتِ صُبْحًا
By the racers panting, the spark-strikers and the dawn-chargers. (100:1–3)

Ḍabḥan evokes breathing or panting, qadḥan the act of striking sparks, and ṣubḥan specifies the time of the raid. These accusatives should not be assigned a single grammatical function merely because their endings match: they have different relations to action, manner and time.

Together they form a sequence of sound, motion and timing. The listener experiences the pace of the scene and is prepared for the following assertion. The effect cannot be explained by rhyme alone.

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Panting, striking and dawn

Supplementary Practice 25 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat az-Zalzalah and Sūrat al-ʿĀdiyāt

وَالْعَادِيَاتِ ضَبْحًا ... فَالْمُورِيَاتِ قَدْحًا ... فَالْمُغِيرَاتِ صُبْحًا
By the racers panting, the spark-strikers and the dawn-chargers. (100:1–3)

Ḍabḥan evokes breathing or panting, qadḥan the act of striking sparks, and ṣubḥan specifies the time of the raid. These accusatives should not be assigned a single grammatical function merely because their endings match: they have different relations to action, manner and time.

Together they form a sequence of sound, motion and timing. The listener experiences the pace of the scene and is prepared for the following assertion. The effect cannot be explained by rhyme alone.