LessonsDivision of Surahs into Verses, Qur’anic Rhythm, and Verse EndingsQuiz

A continuous scene may be built from several short clauses. Individual pauses and renewed commands create urgency, while the whole sequence still expresses one connected event. The length of a single clause is therefore not the entire measure of a passage’s rhetorical movement.

“Khudhūhu fa-ghullūh”
“Seize him and shackle him.” (al-Ḥāqqah 69:30)

The continuation “thumma al-jaḥīma ṣallūh” and “thumma fī silsilatin dharʿuhā sabʿūna dhirāʿan fa-slukūh” (69:31–32) develops the series of commands. The short verbal movements and the repeated “thumma” intensify the scene.

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Short clauses inside a long passage

Division of Surahs into Verses, Qur’anic Rhythm, and Verse Endings

A continuous scene may be built from several short clauses. Individual pauses and renewed commands create urgency, while the whole sequence still expresses one connected event. The length of a single clause is therefore not the entire measure of a passage’s rhetorical movement.

“Khudhūhu fa-ghullūh”
“Seize him and shackle him.” (al-Ḥāqqah 69:30)

The continuation “thumma al-jaḥīma ṣallūh” and “thumma fī silsilatin dharʿuhā sabʿūna dhirāʿan fa-slukūh” (69:31–32) develops the series of commands. The short verbal movements and the repeated “thumma” intensify the scene.