Which best explains fāʾ in “khalaqa fa-sawwā”?

Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah

• Merely saying the two acts coincide
• Making the second verb a substitute for the first
• Making the second an answer to an implied question
• Showing an ordered link between creation and fashioning