LessonsRhetorical Addition: Emphasis, Explanatory Coordination, Connections and Multiple MeaningsQuiz

«قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ لِلَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا لِمَنْ آمَنَ مِنْهُمْ»
“The arrogant chiefs of his people said to those who were oppressed—to those among them who believed.” (al-Aʿrāf 7:75, excerpt)

The first prepositional expression identifies an oppressed group; the second narrows the addressees to the believers within that group. The repeated construction clarifies reference rather than reporting an unrelated second conversation.

This illustrates addition by apposition or explanatory specification. The relation must be established from the setting: a repeated preposition does not automatically prove that every later phrase is an apposition to the preceding one.

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Apposition specifies the intended group

Rhetorical Addition: Emphasis, Explanatory Coordination, Connections and Multiple Meanings

«قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ لِلَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا لِمَنْ آمَنَ مِنْهُمْ»
“The arrogant chiefs of his people said to those who were oppressed—to those among them who believed.” (al-Aʿrāf 7:75, excerpt)

The first prepositional expression identifies an oppressed group; the second narrows the addressees to the believers within that group. The repeated construction clarifies reference rather than reporting an unrelated second conversation.

This illustrates addition by apposition or explanatory specification. The relation must be established from the setting: a repeated preposition does not automatically prove that every later phrase is an apposition to the preceding one.