One variety of ḥusn al-taʿlīl leaves the phenomenon itself accepted but invents a different cause for it.
The rain is real; the alleged fever induced by a patron's generosity is not its meteorological explanation. The poet preserves the event and supplies an imaginative motivation.
The cause must possess some intelligible affinity with the quality. An arbitrary, unrelated explanation is not automatically an elegant rhetorical cause.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II
One variety of ḥusn al-taʿlīl leaves the phenomenon itself accepted but invents a different cause for it.
The rain is real; the alleged fever induced by a patron's generosity is not its meteorological explanation. The poet preserves the event and supplies an imaginative motivation.
The cause must possess some intelligible affinity with the quality. An arbitrary, unrelated explanation is not automatically an elegant rhetorical cause.