«إِذَا مَلِكٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ ذَا هِبَةٍ فَدَعْهُ فَدَوْلَتُهُ ذَاهِبَةٌ»
“If a king is not generous, leave him, for his realm is passing away.”
Dhā hibah (“possessing a gift”) and dhāhibah (“passing away”) create a compound play on words: one side is a two-word expression and the other a single word.
What matters is how the sequence sounds, not merely how many graphic words are visible. Written separation helps distinguish some of the subtypes.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Verbal Embellishments — Paronomasia, Rhymed Prose and Related Figures
«إِذَا مَلِكٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ ذَا هِبَةٍ فَدَعْهُ فَدَوْلَتُهُ ذَاهِبَةٌ»
“If a king is not generous, leave him, for his realm is passing away.”
Dhā hibah (“possessing a gift”) and dhāhibah (“passing away”) create a compound play on words: one side is a two-word expression and the other a single word.
What matters is how the sequence sounds, not merely how many graphic words are visible. Written separation helps distinguish some of the subtypes.