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

أَفَلَا يَعْلَمُ إِذَا بُعْثِرَ مَا فِي الْقُبُورِ
Does he not realize when what lies in graves is scattered out? (100:9)

Afalā yaʿlam is not merely a request for information: it rebukes negligent failure to recognize the coming judgment. Buʿthira is passive and portrays the opening of graves and the bringing forth of what they contain. Idhā points to the decisive future moment.

Classical analyses differ in how the object of yaʿlam is understood or supplied and how it connects to the temporal clause. Across these readings, the rhetorical thrust is stable: the inattentive person is confronted with the reality of disclosure and reckoning.

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Afalā yaʿlam: a question of rebuke

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

أَفَلَا يَعْلَمُ إِذَا بُعْثِرَ مَا فِي الْقُبُورِ
Does he not realize when what lies in graves is scattered out? (100:9)

Afalā yaʿlam is not merely a request for information: it rebukes negligent failure to recognize the coming judgment. Buʿthira is passive and portrays the opening of graves and the bringing forth of what they contain. Idhā points to the decisive future moment.

Classical analyses differ in how the object of yaʿlam is understood or supplied and how it connects to the temporal clause. Across these readings, the rhetorical thrust is stable: the inattentive person is confronted with the reality of disclosure and reckoning.