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

إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ ۝ فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَاتَّقَىٰ
Your strivings are certainly diverse; as for whoever gives and is mindful... (92:4–5)

Verse 4 first provides the general assertion that striving takes different directions. Fa-ammā then begins a two-part elaboration. This is detail after an overall statement: the listener receives the thesis before its concrete patterns and outcomes.

Shattā gathers the idea of diversity into one expression. The following passages specify that diversity rather than overturning the initial claim.

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Shattā and explanation after a general statement

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

إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ ۝ فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَاتَّقَىٰ
Your strivings are certainly diverse; as for whoever gives and is mindful... (92:4–5)

Verse 4 first provides the general assertion that striving takes different directions. Fa-ammā then begins a two-part elaboration. This is detail after an overall statement: the listener receives the thesis before its concrete patterns and outcomes.

Shattā gathers the idea of diversity into one expression. The following passages specify that diversity rather than overturning the initial claim.