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التبليغ — الإغراق — الغلو
Possible intensification, improbable exaggeration, and impossibility.

Tablīgh reaches an extreme still rationally and ordinarily possible; ighrāq is rationally possible but ordinarily improbable; ghulūw involves a rationally impossible assertion. Imaginative framing can make a form of ghulūw rhetorically effective under suitable conditions.

The logical category of the claim and its artistic success are separate judgments.

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Hyperbole: possibility and plausibility

Final Comprehensive Examination: Bayān, Badīʿ and Closing Arts

التبليغ — الإغراق — الغلو
Possible intensification, improbable exaggeration, and impossibility.

Tablīgh reaches an extreme still rationally and ordinarily possible; ighrāq is rationally possible but ordinarily improbable; ghulūw involves a rationally impossible assertion. Imaginative framing can make a form of ghulūw rhetorically effective under suitable conditions.

The logical category of the claim and its artistic success are separate judgments.