LessonsSupplementary Practice 27 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Shams and Sūrat al-LaylQuiz

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا
Then Allah’s messenger said to them: Beware concerning Allah’s she-camel and her turn to drink. (91:13)

Nāqata Allāh is accusative. A recognized reading treats it as an expression of warning with an understood verb such as “beware.” The omitted element is recoverable from context, making this a useful case of ellipsis.

Wa-suqyāhā adds the camel’s right to water to the warning. Here wāw coordinates two items within one warning; it is not a test case for joining two independent declarative clauses.

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Warning and recoverable ellipsis in nāqat Allāh

Supplementary Practice 27 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Shams and Sūrat al-Layl

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا
Then Allah’s messenger said to them: Beware concerning Allah’s she-camel and her turn to drink. (91:13)

Nāqata Allāh is accusative. A recognized reading treats it as an expression of warning with an understood verb such as “beware.” The omitted element is recoverable from context, making this a useful case of ellipsis.

Wa-suqyāhā adds the camel’s right to water to the warning. Here wāw coordinates two items within one warning; it is not a test case for joining two independent declarative clauses.