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

وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ ۝ وَطُورِ سِينِينَ ۝ وَهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ الْأَمِينِ
By the fig and the olive, by Mount Sinai, and by this secure city. (95:1–3)

The first wāw introduces the oath and gives al-tīn the genitive case. The following wāws join further oath objects. This is primarily coordination among nouns, not automatically the rhetorical joining of two independent clauses.

Fig and olive have their ordinary lexical senses, while some tafsīr explanations also associate them with blessed regions. Those interpretive associations should be distinguished from the direct meaning of the words.

Opening interactive controls...

The oath and its coordinated objects

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

وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ ۝ وَطُورِ سِينِينَ ۝ وَهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ الْأَمِينِ
By the fig and the olive, by Mount Sinai, and by this secure city. (95:1–3)

The first wāw introduces the oath and gives al-tīn the genitive case. The following wāws join further oath objects. This is primarily coordination among nouns, not automatically the rhetorical joining of two independent clauses.

Fig and olive have their ordinary lexical senses, while some tafsīr explanations also associate them with blessed regions. Those interpretive associations should be distinguished from the direct meaning of the words.