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Twelfth: rhetorical images and ornaments

Twelfth: rhetorical images and ornaments

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 contains personification and suggests Islam's full grasp of the danger of poverty.
  • "The evils of poverty and the crimes of hunger": poverty is depicted as a harm with bad consequences.
  • Kināyah: "the highest of the pillars of Islam in rank after the oneness of God" — a figure for the 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 to a great building with supports — and it carries embodiment (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's close-ranged words without strain.
  • Elative forms for emphasis: higher, more, amplest, niggardliest, severest (arafu, akthar, afwar, ashichch, ashadd).

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