«أَنْتَ الْحُسْنُ وَلَكِنْ جَفَاكَ فِينَا يَزِيدُ»
You embody beauty, yet your coldness toward us increases.
Yazid / yazidu first evokes the personal name Yazid (the near sense), while the intended remote sense is the present-tense verb “increases.” The interplay depends on the hearer distinguishing the immediately suggested name from the predicate actually meant.
This is more than a dictionary ambiguity: the interplay of a familiar verb form and a proper name gives the wording its effect.
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Ilm al-Badiʿ: The First Nine Semantic Rhetorical Devices
«أَنْتَ الْحُسْنُ وَلَكِنْ جَفَاكَ فِينَا يَزِيدُ»
You embody beauty, yet your coldness toward us increases.
Yazid / yazidu first evokes the personal name Yazid (the near sense), while the intended remote sense is the present-tense verb “increases.” The interplay depends on the hearer distinguishing the immediately suggested name from the predicate actually meant.
This is more than a dictionary ambiguity: the interplay of a familiar verb form and a proper name gives the wording its effect.