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

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
And what will make you realize what the overwhelming calamity is? (101:3)

Mā adrāka increases the listener’s sense of the event’s immense character. It is not a routine examination of the addressee’s information; it creates awe and prepares the audience for what follows.

Repeating the explicit noun al-qāriʿah, rather than replacing it mechanically with a pronoun, renews the theme’s prominence. This is a useful instance of understanding explicit mention where pronominal reference was possible; the repetition contributes an effect rather than empty padding.

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Repeated naming and the force of mā adrāka

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

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
And what will make you realize what the overwhelming calamity is? (101:3)

Mā adrāka increases the listener’s sense of the event’s immense character. It is not a routine examination of the addressee’s information; it creates awe and prepares the audience for what follows.

Repeating the explicit noun al-qāriʿah, rather than replacing it mechanically with a pronoun, renews the theme’s prominence. This is a useful instance of understanding explicit mention where pronominal reference was possible; the repetition contributes an effect rather than empty padding.