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

كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ
Like moths scattered in every direction. (101:4)

The kāf marks comparison, al-farāsh is the image used for comparison, and al-mabthūth qualifies it as dispersed. The root conveys scattering; the likeness therefore suggests not only multitude but disordered movement and loss of familiar coherence.

The compared subject is humankind on that day. The comparison makes an otherwise unimaginable upheaval visible through a familiar physical phenomenon. It primarily builds the scene rather than directly stating a later ethical judgment.

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The simile of scattered moths

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

كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ
Like moths scattered in every direction. (101:4)

The kāf marks comparison, al-farāsh is the image used for comparison, and al-mabthūth qualifies it as dispersed. The root conveys scattering; the likeness therefore suggests not only multitude but disordered movement and loss of familiar coherence.

The compared subject is humankind on that day. The comparison makes an otherwise unimaginable upheaval visible through a familiar physical phenomenon. It primarily builds the scene rather than directly stating a later ethical judgment.