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life and how you live your life on something that is so temporary. I'm living in Sandi Matamanda.

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We're going to try to get to Ion number 28 one way or the other. Let's see in

inshaAllah. Allah is now going to ask some rhetorical questions. Questions have a literal purpose and

a rhetorical purpose. So in for those of you that are interested in more advanced Arabic studies

in the ilwul maani in the science of meaning there's actually something we study called the

secondary meanings behind questions. So for example when somebody asks a question they want

information right that's the main purpose for asking a question but there are other reasons you

ask questions. For example seriously when you ask seriously you weren't looking for information

you were saying how stupid can you be which by the way is also a question basically you're saying

you're really stupid okay or for example somebody says are you going to eat that which is maybe

the way of saying don't eat that I want to eat that right but they ask it in the form of a question

or you could say is it hot in here and that's your way of saying please turn the AC on right so

sometimes you ask questions but you're not actually asking questions you're doing something else

right so this is part of the study of rhetoric communication psychology if you want to use

modern language this would be communication psychology we call it balahal and we study the language

okay so but the study of balahal most of it is communication psychology anyway when Allah asks

the question here amlil insani matamena or is it that the human being will have whatever he wishes

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