Several color words can create a striking picture, but not every pair of colors is logically opposed. Tadbīj is defined by the rhetorical use of color to carry an allusive or double meaning. Ṭibāq, by contrast, requires an intelligible opposition between meanings.
Red and green are not intrinsically an antonym pair. Yet the red imagery of death and the green imagery of Paradise can suggest martyrdom and heavenly recompense, producing a rich transition.
When color imagery, allusion, and contrast coexist, each figure should be identified by its own defining feature.