Why is the name al-qāriʿah repeated in mā adrāka mā al-qāriʿah?
Supplementary Practice 26 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Qāriʿah and Sūrat al-Tīn
- It necessarily deletes a relative pronoun
- Each occurrence refers to a different Day of Judgment
- Repetition cannot perform a meaningful function
- Explicit repetition renews the theme’s gravity and prominence