كالمنية والسبع
Like death and a predator.
Death is not literally an animal with teeth or claws. Comparing it to a predator uses force, fear, or an irresistible grasp to make its effect vivid. Death is the mushabbah and the predator the mushabbah bih; the first is intellectual in this respect and the second sensory.
The comparison does not give death a physical body. It renders a concept more readily imaginable through an object of sensory experience.
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Classification of Simile by Its Two Terms: Sensory, Intellectual, Imagined, and Supposed
كالمنية والسبع
Like death and a predator.
Death is not literally an animal with teeth or claws. Comparing it to a predator uses force, fear, or an irresistible grasp to make its effect vivid. Death is the mushabbah and the predator the mushabbah bih; the first is intellectual in this respect and the second sensory.
The comparison does not give death a physical body. It renders a concept more readily imaginable through an object of sensory experience.