What will make you know
Verses that use the rhetorical question "And what can make you know" to introduce and emphasize significant concepts or places.
- 3
- verses
- 3
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.95
- 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.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ
And what can make you know what is 'illiyyun?
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Mutaffifin.
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.