LessonsʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part IQuiz

Muzāwajah coordinates expressions occurring in a conditional construction and its consequence, or in two related clauses, so that their wording and results correspond.

«إِذَا مَا نَهَى النَّاهِي فَلَجَّ بِيَ الْهَوَى أَصَاخَتْ إِلَى الْوَاشِي فَلَجَّ بِهَا الْهَجْرُ»
“When the restrainer forbade me, passion became stubborn in me; she listened to the slanderer, and separation intensified for her.”

The parallel use of lajja and the paired outcomes makes the conditional relation memorable. The figure coordinates the two movements of the poetic situation.

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Muzāwajah: pairing condition and consequence

ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part I

Muzāwajah coordinates expressions occurring in a conditional construction and its consequence, or in two related clauses, so that their wording and results correspond.

«إِذَا مَا نَهَى النَّاهِي فَلَجَّ بِيَ الْهَوَى أَصَاخَتْ إِلَى الْوَاشِي فَلَجَّ بِهَا الْهَجْرُ»
“When the restrainer forbade me, passion became stubborn in me; she listened to the slanderer, and separation intensified for her.”

The parallel use of lajja and the paired outcomes makes the conditional relation memorable. The figure coordinates the two movements of the poetic situation.