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القرآن
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The address "O you who are wrapped up! Stand"

Hypothesis set aside 2 examples 1 min

Hypothesis examined: when the Qur'an addresses someone with a participle of wrapping ("O you who are wrapped up", "O you who are covered in a cloak") followed by the order « قُمْ » ("Stand / Arise"), the state named would be precisely the one to leave.

Both occurrences are real and answer each other: « يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُزَّمِّلُ قُمِ ٱلَّيْلَ » (73:1-2) and « يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ » (74:1-2). In both, the address names a man wrapped up, then the order makes him rise. Both participles are hapaxes (files زمل and دثر).

But two occurrences, in two consecutive suras, do not make a general rule; and the statement ("the state named is the one to leave") is a reading, not a regularity verifiable elsewhere in the corpus.

The fact has its place elsewhere: it illustrates the learning “Reading a sura with its neighbours”, by which neighbouring suras answer each other in pairs. It is recorded there as evidence.

In the text

Example 73:1-2
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُزَّمِّلُ قُمِ ٱلَّيْلَ
“O you who are wrapped up! Stand the night”
First sura of the pair.
Example 74:1-2
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ
“O you who are covered in a cloak! Arise and warn”
The next sura answers the first: a pair echo (“Reading a sura with its neighbours”), not a rule.