Why is “God said: fa-ṣabrun jamīl” treated differently from literary iqtibās here?
Iqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating Poetry
- Its entire Qur’anic meaning has been altered
- It is solely an example of complete paronomasia
- It announces the source and presents the words as a citation
- It is a borrowed hemistich from another poet