Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah
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- What is the principal communicative act of “sabbiḥ isma rabbika”?
- Which best explains fāʾ in “khalaqa fa-sawwā”?
- What is the antecedent of “-hu” in “fa-jaʿalahu ghuthāʾan aḥwā”?
- What is the contextual force of lā in “sa-nuqriʾuka fa-lā tansā”?
- Why is it unsound to detach “illā mā shāʾa Allāh” from the preceding promise?
- What does inna chiefly add to “He knows what is open and hidden”?
- What is the role of wāw in “wa-nuyassiruka li-l-yusrā”?
- What is the grammatical function of in in 87:9?
- What connects the two responses to the reminder in 87:10–11?
- How should “neither dies therein nor lives” be interpreted rhetorically?
- What does qad contribute in “qad aflaḥa man tazakkā”?
- What does fāʾ do between remembrance and prayer in 87:15?
- What is the rhetorical role of bal in 87:16?
- Why combine “better” and “more lasting” about the Hereafter?
- How does “the scriptures of Abraham and Moses” relate to “earlier scriptures”?
- What is the dominant rhetorical effect of the opening question of al-Ghāshiyah?
- What is the grammatical status of wujūhun in 88:2?
- What is highlighted by the passive tusqā in 88:5?
- What construction creates restriction in 88:6?
- Why are two negatives used about the food in 88:7?
- What makes the radiant-faces clause a deliberate contrast with the downcast-faces clause?
- What is a sound rhetorical inference from fronting li-saʿyihā?
- What is the chief effect of the repeated “how” in 88:17–20?
- What do the verbs in the four creation questions have in common?
- How should restriction in “innamā anta mudhakkir” be understood?
- What is a recognized function of bāʾ in bi-muṣayṭir?
- Which meaning is preserved by a prominent reading of illā man tawallā wa-kafar?
- What techniques recur in the final two verses of al-Ghāshiyah?
- What distinguishes the two occurrences of “fa-dhakkir” across the surahs?
- Which distinction between emphasis and restriction is correct?