وَجَذَبَكَ الْوَعْظُ فَتَقَاعَسْتَ
Counsel drew you toward it, but you held back.
Jadhaba is to pull or attract; waʿẓ is admonition. Taqāʿasta means to hang back or fail to act through reluctance or sluggishness.
The exhortation is imagined as a force pulling the hearer forward. Hearing wise words is therefore distinguished from following them: attraction without action can leave a person unchanged.
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The Ṣanʿāʾ Maqāmah: Guidance, Mortality, and Evasive Responses
وَجَذَبَكَ الْوَعْظُ فَتَقَاعَسْتَ
Counsel drew you toward it, but you held back.
Jadhaba is to pull or attract; waʿẓ is admonition. Taqāʿasta means to hang back or fail to act through reluctance or sluggishness.
The exhortation is imagined as a force pulling the hearer forward. Hearing wise words is therefore distinguished from following them: attraction without action can leave a person unchanged.