LessonsSupplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-GhāshiyahQuiz

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ۞ فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
But whoever turns away and disbelieves, Allah will punish with the greatest punishment. (88:23–24)

The exception after “you are not a controller” has received more than one grammatical explanation. A prominent reading takes it as a disconnected exception, effectively “but whoever turns away...,” not as a new command authorizing compulsion.

The fāʾ links rejection with its consequence, and “the greater punishment” intensifies the warning. Distinguishing syntactic interpretation from rhetorical consequence prevents misreading the earlier restriction.

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The exception concerning rejection

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

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ۞ فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
But whoever turns away and disbelieves, Allah will punish with the greatest punishment. (88:23–24)

The exception after “you are not a controller” has received more than one grammatical explanation. A prominent reading takes it as a disconnected exception, effectively “but whoever turns away...,” not as a new command authorizing compulsion.

The fāʾ links rejection with its consequence, and “the greater punishment” intensifies the warning. Distinguishing syntactic interpretation from rhetorical consequence prevents misreading the earlier restriction.