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

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Is Allah not the wisest and most just of judges? (95:8)

The interrogative hamzah combines with the negative laysa to form a confirmatory question whose purpose is acknowledgment. Allāhu is the subject of laysa, and the phrase «bi-aḥkami al-ḥākimīn» its predicate. The bāʾ is conventionally described as an extra particle for emphasis; aḥkam is genitive in form while occupying the predicate’s accusative position.

The question closes the argument with divine justice and flawless judgment. It does not deny that justice; it uses interrogative negation to secure assent to the affirmative meaning.

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The final confirmatory question

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

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Is Allah not the wisest and most just of judges? (95:8)

The interrogative hamzah combines with the negative laysa to form a confirmatory question whose purpose is acknowledgment. Allāhu is the subject of laysa, and the phrase «bi-aḥkami al-ḥākimīn» its predicate. The bāʾ is conventionally described as an extra particle for emphasis; aḥkam is genitive in form while occupying the predicate’s accusative position.

The question closes the argument with divine justice and flawless judgment. It does not deny that justice; it uses interrogative negation to secure assent to the affirmative meaning.