How should “neither dies therein nor lives” be interpreted rhetorically?
Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah
- Both negatives deny exactly one action
- The first is a report, the second a prohibition
- The terms for life and death become synonymous without context
- Denying both the release of death and a life of relief