LessonsIntroduction to ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Ṭibāq and MuqābalahQuiz

In muqābalah, not every individual word in one side needs a lexical antonym on the other. The central semantic units form the contrast, while some connective words only establish sentence structure.

In the example from Sūrat al-Layl, repeated particles and connective expressions bind the two descriptions. The principal opposing relations are giving/withholding and the other substantive pairs.

One should first identify the core meanings in each group, then match their corresponding members. Inventing antonyms for every grammatical particle is unnecessary.

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Introduction to ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Ṭibāq and Muqābalah

In muqābalah, not every individual word in one side needs a lexical antonym on the other. The central semantic units form the contrast, while some connective words only establish sentence structure.

In the example from Sūrat al-Layl, repeated particles and connective expressions bind the two descriptions. The principal opposing relations are giving/withholding and the other substantive pairs.

One should first identify the core meanings in each group, then match their corresponding members. Inventing antonyms for every grammatical particle is unnecessary.