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

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like carded wool. (101:5)

Al-jibālu is the subject of takūnu; the comparative prepositional phrase functions as its predicate. Al-ʿihn denotes wool, often understood as colored wool, and al-manfūsh depicts it as fluffed or carded. The simile overturns the familiar solidity of mountains.

The wāw in wa-takūnu joins two connected scenes. Though the subjects differ—people and mountains—their common relation to the same catastrophic day provides the semantic link (jāmiʿ).

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Mountains and carded wool

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

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like carded wool. (101:5)

Al-jibālu is the subject of takūnu; the comparative prepositional phrase functions as its predicate. Al-ʿihn denotes wool, often understood as colored wool, and al-manfūsh depicts it as fluffed or carded. The simile overturns the familiar solidity of mountains.

The wāw in wa-takūnu joins two connected scenes. Though the subjects differ—people and mountains—their common relation to the same catastrophic day provides the semantic link (jāmiʿ).