LessonsFasāḥat al-Kalām: Word Discord, Defective Construction, and ComplexityQuiz

«في رفع عرش الشرع مثلك يشرع»
Someone like you takes action to elevate the throne of religious law.

This line places words with closely related sound patterns near one another: ʿarsh, al-sharʿ, yashraʿ. Repeated adjacent consonants make the line awkward to recite smoothly.

The words themselves are recognizable. The objection concerns the combined phonetic sequence, not the absence of an intelligible meaning. It illustrates how valid words can still produce an ineloquent utterance.

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The verse on “raising the throne of law”

Fasāḥat al-Kalām: Word Discord, Defective Construction, and Complexity

«في رفع عرش الشرع مثلك يشرع»
Someone like you takes action to elevate the throne of religious law.

This line places words with closely related sound patterns near one another: ʿarsh, al-sharʿ, yashraʿ. Repeated adjacent consonants make the line awkward to recite smoothly.

The words themselves are recognizable. The objection concerns the combined phonetic sequence, not the absence of an intelligible meaning. It illustrates how valid words can still produce an ineloquent utterance.