«وَلَا يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ السَّيِّئُ إِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ»
An evil plot recoils only upon those who devise it.
This is presented as musāwāh (المساواة). It communicates the relevant principle directly: no omitted constituent needs to be recovered for this analysis, and no additional phrase has been added for a separate emphasis or explanation.
It is part of Qurʾān 35:43. The point is not a crude word-count equality, but a successful match between the sentence's form and its communicative purpose.
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Ījāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāh: Concision, Ellipsis, Expansion and Equivalence
«وَلَا يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ السَّيِّئُ إِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ»
An evil plot recoils only upon those who devise it.
This is presented as musāwāh (المساواة). It communicates the relevant principle directly: no omitted constituent needs to be recovered for this analysis, and no additional phrase has been added for a separate emphasis or explanation.
It is part of Qurʾān 35:43. The point is not a crude word-count equality, but a successful match between the sentence's form and its communicative purpose.