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

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

Yawmāʾidhin recalls the time already described. Tuḥaddithu is imperfect, presenting the future scene with vivid immediacy; akhbārahā is its object. The reporting of what the earth has witnessed now becomes central.

Read against the question mā lahā, this new statement may be heard as an explanatory reply—one rhetorical route to understanding istiʾnāf bayānī. It is not enough to call every independent clause a resumption; the earlier question and the reply must actually fit.

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Yawmāʾidhin and explanatory resumption

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

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

Yawmāʾidhin recalls the time already described. Tuḥaddithu is imperfect, presenting the future scene with vivid immediacy; akhbārahā is its object. The reporting of what the earth has witnessed now becomes central.

Read against the question mā lahā, this new statement may be heard as an explanatory reply—one rhetorical route to understanding istiʾnāf bayānī. It is not enough to call every independent clause a resumption; the earlier question and the reply must actually fit.