Why is it unsound to detach “illā mā shāʾa Allāh” from the preceding promise?
Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah
- The exception necessarily cancels the entire promise
- The exception qualifies the promise and must be read with it
- It turns the promise into an unrelated conditional clause
- Detachment obscures what the exception qualifies