LessonsĪjāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and EquivalenceQuiz

Iʿtirāḍ (الاعتراض) inserts a meaningful parenthesis within the main flow of a statement. The inserted material is not a required constituent of the surrounding grammatical construction, yet it serves supplication, glorification, emphasis or warning.

The source cites «وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ» (Qurʾān 16:57). Subḥānahu (سبحانه) intervenes to proclaim God's transcendence amid the objectionable attribution.

The parenthesis is meaningful rather than incidental: it immediately rejects the unworthy implication while the surrounding statement continues.

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Iʿtirāḍ: a meaningful parenthetical insertion

Ījāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and Equivalence

Iʿtirāḍ (الاعتراض) inserts a meaningful parenthesis within the main flow of a statement. The inserted material is not a required constituent of the surrounding grammatical construction, yet it serves supplication, glorification, emphasis or warning.

The source cites «وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ» (Qurʾān 16:57). Subḥānahu (سبحانه) intervenes to proclaim God's transcendence amid the objectionable attribution.

The parenthesis is meaningful rather than incidental: it immediately rejects the unworthy implication while the surrounding statement continues.