LessonsSupplementary Practice 26 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Qāriʿah and Sūrat al-TīnQuiz

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ ۝ نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ
And what will make you know what it is? A blazing fire. (101:10–11)

Mā adrāka returns, but its target shifts from the surah’s initial designation to the destiny called hāwiyah. The final h in hiyah is commonly analyzed as hāʾ al-sakt, associated with pausal pronunciation.

Nārun ḥāmiyah is a short noun-and-adjective formulation that answers the preceding question. The rhetoric here relies on the power of an economical clarification after carefully heightened anticipation.

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Supplementary Practice 26 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Qāriʿah and Sūrat al-Tīn

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ ۝ نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ
And what will make you know what it is? A blazing fire. (101:10–11)

Mā adrāka returns, but its target shifts from the surah’s initial designation to the destiny called hāwiyah. The final h in hiyah is commonly analyzed as hāʾ al-sakt, associated with pausal pronunciation.

Nārun ḥāmiyah is a short noun-and-adjective formulation that answers the preceding question. The rhetoric here relies on the power of an economical clarification after carefully heightened anticipation.