Rhetorical questions
A collection of short, rhetorical questions that challenge the listener, prompt reflection, or rebuke disbelief.
- 9
- verses
- 9
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.92
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is on the loose side, so the group holds together less tightly than most.
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.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
And what can make you know what that is?
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
What is [wrong] with you? How do you make judgement?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
What is the Inevitable Reality?
فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ
So where are you going?
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى
Does man think that he will be left neglected?
فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَىٰهَآ
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلذُّكْرَانَ مِنَ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Do you approach males among the worlds
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Haaqqa.
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.