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

فَأَنْذَرْتُكُمْ نَارًا تَلَظَّىٰ ۝ لَا يَصْلَاهَا إِلَّا الْأَشْقَى ۝ الَّذِي كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Therefore I have warned you of a blazing fire; the most wretched, who denied and turned away, is singled out in this threat. (92:14–16)

Fa-andhartukum turns the preceding assurance into a consequential warning. The indefinite nāran, qualified by talaẓẓā, intensifies the image. Lā ... illā is a restrictive frame; the relative clause identifies the condemned disposition.

The scope of the restriction must be read in the threat context. A rhetorical lesson should not construct a sweeping doctrinal proposition from an isolated sentence without considering the rest of the relevant discourse.

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Warning, indefiniteness, and restricted predication

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

فَأَنْذَرْتُكُمْ نَارًا تَلَظَّىٰ ۝ لَا يَصْلَاهَا إِلَّا الْأَشْقَى ۝ الَّذِي كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Therefore I have warned you of a blazing fire; the most wretched, who denied and turned away, is singled out in this threat. (92:14–16)

Fa-andhartukum turns the preceding assurance into a consequential warning. The indefinite nāran, qualified by talaẓẓā, intensifies the image. Lā ... illā is a restrictive frame; the relative clause identifies the condemned disposition.

The scope of the restriction must be read in the threat context. A rhetorical lesson should not construct a sweeping doctrinal proposition from an isolated sentence without considering the rest of the relevant discourse.