Brief rhetorical questions
A collection of short, punchy verses posing rhetorical questions or describing human behavior and creation.
- 5
- verses
- 5
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.93
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1.
What binds this group is form rather than subject: repeated phrasing, a shared opening, or a refrain. It is a real pattern in the text, but it is not a topic, and it is shown here as what it is.
The verses
Closest to the group’s centre first.
أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ
Have you seen that which you emit?
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ
And have shown him the two ways?
أَحْيَآءً وَأَمْوَٰتًا
Of the living and the dead?
ٱلَّذِى يَرَىٰكَ حِينَ تَقُومُ
Who sees you when you arise
فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍۭ
Fleeing from a lion?
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Waaqia.
A histogram of where this topic’s verses fall across the book in reading order.
How it sounds
Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.
how strongly mercy sounds
how strongly judgment sounds
how much it instructs rather than describes
how much it points beyond this life
how positive the verse feels
how charged the language is
The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.
Next to this
The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.