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

وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰ ۝ وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّىٰ ۝ وَمَا خَلَقَ الذَّكَرَ وَالْأُنْثَىٰ ۝ إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ
By the night as it covers, the day as it appears, and the Creator—or creating—of male and female: your strivings are indeed diverse. (92:1–4)

The oath response is clearly inna saʿyakum la-shattā. Inna and the predicate lām reinforce the claim. After cosmic contrasts, the discourse asserts diversity in human striving.

This differs from the recognized debate over the oath answer in al-Shams. The two surahs share the oath technique but differ in how their subsequent arguments unfold.

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Al-Layl: oaths followed by an emphatic conclusion

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

وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰ ۝ وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّىٰ ۝ وَمَا خَلَقَ الذَّكَرَ وَالْأُنْثَىٰ ۝ إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ
By the night as it covers, the day as it appears, and the Creator—or creating—of male and female: your strivings are indeed diverse. (92:1–4)

The oath response is clearly inna saʿyakum la-shattā. Inna and the predicate lām reinforce the claim. After cosmic contrasts, the discourse asserts diversity in human striving.

This differs from the recognized debate over the oath answer in al-Shams. The two surahs share the oath technique but differ in how their subsequent arguments unfold.