LessonsSupplementary Practice 29 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Infiṭār and Sūrat al-InshiqāqQuiz

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
Except those who believe and do righteous deeds: for them is an unending reward. (84:25)

The final exception establishes the different fate of believers. The conjunction between “āmanū” and “ʿamilū al-ṣāliḥāt” connects faith and action within one description. “Lahum” is a fronted predicate and “ajrun” the delayed subject, bringing the beneficiaries of the reward into focus.

“Ghayru mamnūn” denies any termination or cutting-off of the reward. The surah thus ends not with threat alone but with a balanced contrast of warning and promise. The exception must be understood within its context rather than applied indiscriminately to all persons described earlier.

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Al-Inshiqāq: the final exception and unending reward

Supplementary Practice 29 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Infiṭār and Sūrat al-Inshiqāq

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
Except those who believe and do righteous deeds: for them is an unending reward. (84:25)

The final exception establishes the different fate of believers. The conjunction between “āmanū” and “ʿamilū al-ṣāliḥāt” connects faith and action within one description. “Lahum” is a fronted predicate and “ajrun” the delayed subject, bringing the beneficiaries of the reward into focus.

“Ghayru mamnūn” denies any termination or cutting-off of the reward. The surah thus ends not with threat alone but with a balanced contrast of warning and promise. The exception must be understood within its context rather than applied indiscriminately to all persons described earlier.