What is prominent in the opening “Qad samiʿa Allāhu qawla allatī tujādiluka”?

Arrangement of the Qur’an and the Rhetorical Style of Surahs

• Announcing the divine source of a book
• Generally announcing the obligation of a ruling
• Opening with a community’s history without direct address
• A woman’s plea and the emphatic affirmation that Allah heard it