Classifications of Tashbih: Terms, Multiplicity, Ground and Particle
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- What determines whether a term is simple or composite?
- What is the ground of “this thing is like musk in fragrance”?
- How are the two terms structured in the dust-and-stars comparison?
- What is the terms-based class of the shaqīq flower imagery?
- What class applies when a flower-strewn sunlit day is likened to moonlit night?
- Which pattern groups moist/dry hearts before their models jujubes/dates?
- Which model corresponds to the dry heart in the malfuf example?
- What pattern does “fragrance is musk, faces are dinars…” illustrate?
- What primarily distinguishes malfuf from mafruq?
- How many subjects and models are in “the side-lock and my condition are like nights”?
- What is it called when teeth are compared with pearls, hail and flowers?
- How does taswiyah differ from jamʿ?
- What is the defining feature of tamthil?
- Why can the battle scene be both composite–composite and tamthil?
- What ground-based type applies to a star likened to a coin for roundness?
- Why is “the face is like the moon in radiance” mufassal?
- Is the ground stated in “grammar is like salt in food”?
- How is “he is a sea in generosity” classified?
- What two labels apply to “he is like a sea in generosity”?
- Why is “the scholar is light” a baligh simile?
- Is every muʾakkad simile also baligh?
- What strengthens the comparisons in “gold of sunset upon silver of water”?
- Which classification fits “the face is like the moon in radiance”?
- Are malfuf and mujmal incompatible labels?
- A simple comparative term need not be expressed by only one word.
- In malfuf, each subject is immediately followed by its model.
- In jamʿ, a single subject may be compared with multiple models.
- Tamthil is determined solely by how many words describe each term.
- “He is a sea in generosity” is both muʾakkad and mufassal.
- In tashbih baligh, both the particle and the explicit ground are absent.