Sometimes the quality is first poetically posited and then given a fitting explanation. A cloud's embarrassment or fever is not a literal external event, but the verse invites the reader to accept the imagined condition within the scene.
The purpose is not to correct meteorology. It is to project the praised quality into the surrounding world.
Unlike tajrīd, which extracts an imagined counterpart from a quality, ḥusn al-taʿlīl provides a special cause for an asserted condition.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II
Sometimes the quality is first poetically posited and then given a fitting explanation. A cloud's embarrassment or fever is not a literal external event, but the verse invites the reader to accept the imagined condition within the scene.
The purpose is not to correct meteorology. It is to project the praised quality into the surrounding world.
Unlike tajrīd, which extracts an imagined counterpart from a quality, ḥusn al-taʿlīl provides a special cause for an asserted condition.