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

إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لِرَبِّهِ لَكَنُودٌ
Truly the human being is profoundly ungrateful toward his Lord. (100:6)

This is the response to the preceding oath. Inna and the emphatic lām reinforce the assertion. Fronting li-rabbihi foregrounds the very relationship in which ingratitude is reprehensible: the person’s duty toward the Lord who provides. Kanūd conveys marked thanklessness.

Generic al-insān describes a human propensity; it does not require that every individual at all times exhibit it. The passage shifts from a vivid oath scene to a moral judgment, and the emphatic answer gives the opening imagery its argumentative destination.

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The oath response: human ingratitude

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

إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لِرَبِّهِ لَكَنُودٌ
Truly the human being is profoundly ungrateful toward his Lord. (100:6)

This is the response to the preceding oath. Inna and the emphatic lām reinforce the assertion. Fronting li-rabbihi foregrounds the very relationship in which ingratitude is reprehensible: the person’s duty toward the Lord who provides. Kanūd conveys marked thanklessness.

Generic al-insān describes a human propensity; it does not require that every individual at all times exhibit it. The passage shifts from a vivid oath scene to a moral judgment, and the emphatic answer gives the opening imagery its argumentative destination.