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

إِنَّ الْأَبْرَارَ لَفِي نَعِيمٍ ۞ وَإِنَّ الْفُجَّارَ لَفِي جَحِيمٍ ۞ يَصْلَوْنَهَا يَوْمَ الدِّينِ ۞ وَمَا هُمْ عَنْهَا بِغَائِبِينَ
The righteous will surely be in bliss and the wicked in the Fire. They enter it on the Day of Recompense and will not be absent from it. (82:13–16)

Al-abrār / al-fujjār and naʿīm / jaḥīm establish a balanced contrast. Both declarative clauses share “inna” and the emphatic lām, placing both outcomes at the same level of certainty. “Yaṣlawnahā” then specifies the second outcome further.

In “wa-mā hum ʿanhā bi-ghāʾibīn,” mā negates and the additional bāʾ in the predicate reinforces denial. The purpose is not mere repetition but the rejection of any prospect that the guilty might avoid the punishment.

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Al-Infiṭār: opposed destinies in balanced clauses

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

إِنَّ الْأَبْرَارَ لَفِي نَعِيمٍ ۞ وَإِنَّ الْفُجَّارَ لَفِي جَحِيمٍ ۞ يَصْلَوْنَهَا يَوْمَ الدِّينِ ۞ وَمَا هُمْ عَنْهَا بِغَائِبِينَ
The righteous will surely be in bliss and the wicked in the Fire. They enter it on the Day of Recompense and will not be absent from it. (82:13–16)

Al-abrār / al-fujjār and naʿīm / jaḥīm establish a balanced contrast. Both declarative clauses share “inna” and the emphatic lām, placing both outcomes at the same level of certainty. “Yaṣlawnahā” then specifies the second outcome further.

In “wa-mā hum ʿanhā bi-ghāʾibīn,” mā negates and the additional bāʾ in the predicate reinforces denial. The purpose is not mere repetition but the rejection of any prospect that the guilty might avoid the punishment.