ScopeRhetorical benefit
GeneralRenewed attention and departure from monotony
WorshipMovement from praise to direct supplication
AdmonitionDrawing the hearer into personal responsibility
NarrativeReframing the scene from another perspective
Each benefit must be grounded in the actual passage. One should not claim that every kind of iltifāt simultaneously produces all effects. The special force in al-Fātiḥah is not identical to the force of the ship narrative.
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Iltifāt and Related Departures from Expected Expression
ScopeRhetorical benefit
GeneralRenewed attention and departure from monotony
WorshipMovement from praise to direct supplication
AdmonitionDrawing the hearer into personal responsibility
NarrativeReframing the scene from another perspective
Each benefit must be grounded in the actual passage. One should not claim that every kind of iltifāt simultaneously produces all effects. The special force in al-Fātiḥah is not identical to the force of the ship narrative.