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

وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ
And surely he will be pleased. (92:21)

The emphatic lām and sawfa make the future prospect a forceful assurance. The understood subject continues the description of al-atqā, so the promise closes the account of giving and sincerity.

The rhetorical purpose is not to calculate a date from sawfa. It is to end the passage with hope and an outcome fitting the intention described immediately before.

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Wa-la-sawfa yarḍā: closing assurance

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

وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ
And surely he will be pleased. (92:21)

The emphatic lām and sawfa make the future prospect a forceful assurance. The understood subject continues the description of al-atqā, so the promise closes the account of giving and sincerity.

The rhetorical purpose is not to calculate a date from sawfa. It is to end the passage with hope and an outcome fitting the intention described immediately before.