LessonsʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part IIQuiz

«وَمِنْهُ التَّجْرِيدُ: وَهُوَ أَنْ يَنْتَزِعَ مِنْ أَمْرٍ ذِي صِفَةٍ آخَرَ مِثْلَهُ فِيهَا مُبَالَغَةً لِكَمَالِهَا فِيهِ»
“Tajrīd extracts from a thing possessing a quality another like it in that quality, to intensify the portrayal of its perfection.”

«لِي مِنْ فُلَانٍ صَدِيقٌ حَمِيمٌ»
“In so-and-so I have a truly devoted friend.”

The claim is not that there are two actual people. An imagined second possessor of the same quality is drawn out from the first to suggest that the quality is abundant or perfected.

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Tajrīd: extracting an imagined counterpart

ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II

«وَمِنْهُ التَّجْرِيدُ: وَهُوَ أَنْ يَنْتَزِعَ مِنْ أَمْرٍ ذِي صِفَةٍ آخَرَ مِثْلَهُ فِيهَا مُبَالَغَةً لِكَمَالِهَا فِيهِ»
“Tajrīd extracts from a thing possessing a quality another like it in that quality, to intensify the portrayal of its perfection.”

«لِي مِنْ فُلَانٍ صَدِيقٌ حَمِيمٌ»
“In so-and-so I have a truly devoted friend.”

The claim is not that there are two actual people. An imagined second possessor of the same quality is drawn out from the first to suggest that the quality is abundant or perfected.