Tasnif Style Guide

Tasnif Style Guide — Page 68

68 TAŞNİF STYLE GUIDE ■ Qurans, hadith books, and prayer books for class; their caps for Prayers; and their gym shoes and lunches for the break period. May God bless Mr. John Doe, the President of the New York Jama'at; Mrs. Jane Doe, the National Lajnah Sadr of the United States; and Ms. Amy Parks, the Mayor of New York, New York, USA for their coordination of the tabligh event. Em Dash The em dash an effective tool to capture ancillary thoughts within the context of a running sentence. The nature of these include fleeting thoughts, points of emphasis, attention-grabbers, tangential facts, etc. Although these ancillary thoughts break from the flow of the main sentence, the em dashes enclose them to give them voice, while protecting the integrity and continuity of the main sentence. This is particularly effective in framing the long sentence structures typically found in the scholarly works during the time of the Promised Messiah as. A pair of em dashes articulate a stronger break in the sen- tence's thought process and flow than would be expressed by a comma or semicolon, but without the need to end the sentence with a full stop. There is no space before and after an em dash. An exclamation mark or a question mark may precede a closing em dash, but not a comma, semicolon, colon, or full point, as these would be redundant.