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

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا
So they denied the messenger, slaughtered the she-camel, and their Lord overwhelmed them for their sin and levelled them. (91:14)

Repeated fā in fa-kadhdhabūhu, fa-ʿaqarūhā and fa-damdama presents a consequential sequence. The preposition bi in bi-dhanbihim makes the causal moral basis explicit.

The particle alone does not quantify the exact interval between events. The rhetorical focus is the close relation between defiance, action and consequence.

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

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا
So they denied the messenger, slaughtered the she-camel, and their Lord overwhelmed them for their sin and levelled them. (91:14)

Repeated fā in fa-kadhdhabūhu, fa-ʿaqarūhā and fa-damdama presents a consequential sequence. The preposition bi in bi-dhanbihim makes the causal moral basis explicit.

The particle alone does not quantify the exact interval between events. The rhetorical focus is the close relation between defiance, action and consequence.