Point 12 of 14 — Lesson 1: Social Solidarity in Islam by Ahmed Hassan al-ZayyatQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
12Twelfth: rhetorical images and ornaments
Concise simile (tashbīh balīgh): "Islam treated poverty with the treatment of one who knows it is the root of every disease" — it containspersonificationand suggestsIslam's full grasp of the danger of poverty.
"The evils of poverty and the crimes of hunger": poverty is depicted asa harm with bad consequences.
Kināyah: "the highest of the pillars of Islam in rank after the oneness of God" — a figure forthe importance of treating poverty, with the meaning intended alongside its literal sense.
Hidden borrowed image (mustakniyah makniyyah) in "the pillars of Islam": Islam is likened toa great building with supports — and it carriesembodiment (tajsim).
The same figure runs through the treatment of poverty: "to throw it down in its strongest fortresses", "if it were defeated", "trim the nails of poverty", "what poverty harvests from human beings" — poverty is an enemy at war, with nails and fortresses.
Pairing (izdawaj) and unstressed rhyme (saj'): "inciting the instincts and tearing the bonds", "enduring raiding and suffering deprivation", "reconciled hearts, made brothers of people, equalised races".
Jinās (paronomasia)appears in the writer'sclose-ranged words without strain.