LessonsʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part IIQuiz

«إِنَّ الشَّبَابَ وَالْفَرَاغَ وَالْجِدَةَ مَفْسَدَةٌ لِلْمَرْءِ أَيَّ مَفْسَدَةٍ»
“Youth, leisure, and wealth can become a grave source of corruption for a person.”

The three items—youth, leisure, and wealth—are joined under the predicate mafsadah. The line highlights danger arising from their combination, not an unconditional judgment that each is inherently evil.

This is not ṭibāq, which relies on opposition, nor a full muqābalah with parallel pairs of opposites. Its force lies in gathering several items under a single conclusion.

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How a shared predicate produces unity

ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II

«إِنَّ الشَّبَابَ وَالْفَرَاغَ وَالْجِدَةَ مَفْسَدَةٌ لِلْمَرْءِ أَيَّ مَفْسَدَةٍ»
“Youth, leisure, and wealth can become a grave source of corruption for a person.”

The three items—youth, leisure, and wealth—are joined under the predicate mafsadah. The line highlights danger arising from their combination, not an unconditional judgment that each is inherently evil.

This is not ṭibāq, which relies on opposition, nor a full muqābalah with parallel pairs of opposites. Its force lies in gathering several items under a single conclusion.