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

وَإِنَّهُ لِحُبِّ الْخَيْرِ لَشَدِيدٌ
And he is intensely attached to wealth. (100:8)

Al-khayr here is a familiar expression for material wealth. Li-ḥubb al-khayr is brought before the later predicate la-shadīd, clearly relating the intensity to love of wealth. Exegetes discuss strong attachment, greed and miserliness as related aspects, but not every moral nuance follows from the adjective shadīd in isolation.

Verses 6–8 develop related aspects of human conduct: ingratitude, testimony concerning it, and intense love of possessions. Their unity rests on the moral subject, not simply on the repeated opening particles.

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Ḥubb al-khayr: meaning and fronting

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

وَإِنَّهُ لِحُبِّ الْخَيْرِ لَشَدِيدٌ
And he is intensely attached to wealth. (100:8)

Al-khayr here is a familiar expression for material wealth. Li-ḥubb al-khayr is brought before the later predicate la-shadīd, clearly relating the intensity to love of wealth. Exegetes discuss strong attachment, greed and miserliness as related aspects, but not every moral nuance follows from the adjective shadīd in isolation.

Verses 6–8 develop related aspects of human conduct: ingratitude, testimony concerning it, and intense love of possessions. Their unity rests on the moral subject, not simply on the repeated opening particles.