Why are two negatives used about the food in 88:7?
Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah
- The first denies hunger and the second thirst
- The second is an idle verbal replacement of the first
- Separately denying nourishment and relief from hunger
- The two negatives imply the food is beneficial