How do the two surahs differ in their argumentative movement after the oaths?
Supplementary Practice 27 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Shams and Sūrat al-Layl
- Al-Shams: purification/corruption and Thamūd; al-Layl: parallel elaborations of divergent striving
- Both narrate only one community’s history
- Al-Shams contains only commands; al-Layl only statements
- All verbs after both oaths are omitted