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

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
On that Day the earth will report its accounts. (99:4)

إِنَّ رَبَّهُمْ بِهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَخَبِيرٌ
Indeed their Lord will be fully aware of them on that Day. (100:11)

Both verses employ yawmāʾidhin, but the first pictures the earth reporting, whereas the second emphatically asserts divine knowledge. In one, the imperfect verb lends vividness to a future scene; in the other, inna and the lām reinforce a predicative relation.

Sharing a word does not make two verses rhetorically identical. Sound analysis first identifies syntax, then the contextual aim, and finally the effect achieved by that structure.

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

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
On that Day the earth will report its accounts. (99:4)

إِنَّ رَبَّهُمْ بِهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَخَبِيرٌ
Indeed their Lord will be fully aware of them on that Day. (100:11)

Both verses employ yawmāʾidhin, but the first pictures the earth reporting, whereas the second emphatically asserts divine knowledge. In one, the imperfect verb lends vividness to a future scene; in the other, inna and the lām reinforce a predicative relation.

Sharing a word does not make two verses rhetorically identical. Sound analysis first identifies syntax, then the contextual aim, and finally the effect achieved by that structure.