VerseCompared subjectImageProminent effect
101:4PeopleScattered mothsDispersal and agitation
101:5MountainsCarded woolDisintegration of apparent solidity
The two similes do not require precisely the same ground of comparison. The first pictures human bewilderment, the second the collapse of what seemed stable and immovable.
Together they provide clarification after an awe-inducing introduction: the previously enigmatic 'calamity' becomes imaginable through distinct scenes.
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Supplementary Practice 26 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Qāriʿah and Sūrat al-Tīn
VerseCompared subjectImageProminent effect
101:4PeopleScattered mothsDispersal and agitation
101:5MountainsCarded woolDisintegration of apparent solidity
The two similes do not require precisely the same ground of comparison. The first pictures human bewilderment, the second the collapse of what seemed stable and immovable.
Together they provide clarification after an awe-inducing introduction: the previously enigmatic 'calamity' becomes imaginable through distinct scenes.