ذانك

Core meaning

Demonstrative of distance, in the masculine dual: it points together to two things already shown. The translation renders it "these … two".

Uses

1. فَذَٰنِكَ + dual → "these, then, are two …" : gathers in a single gesture the two proofs just given, the staff and the hand.

   • «فَذَٰنِكَ بُرْهَٰنَانِ مِن رَّبِّكَ» — "These, then, are two demonstrations from your Guardian" (28:32)

Evidence from the text

The word appears only once. Moussa has just seen his staff vibrate "as though it were an Occulted" (28:31), then his hand come out "white, without any harm" (28:32). ذَٰنِكَ takes up these two signs from a distance, as an accomplished whole: the dual fixes their number, the mark of distance ـكَ sets them as already shown, on the model of ذَٰلِكَ.

Distinctions

• هذان — the dual of nearness: it points to two present things, whereas ذَٰنِكَ takes up two things already given

See also

ذلك (the demonstrative of distance in the singular)