LessonsIqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating PoetryQuiz

أعذاره الساري العجول توقفا ما في وقوفك ساعة من بأس
Hold back the hurried night traveller; an hour's pause would do no harm.

The poetic wording presents a hurried night traveller and a call to halt. In the textbook's discussion, an earlier hemistich is brought into a new poetic scene; the image is made to fit the second composition.

When the scene concerns features appearing on a face, the relation between a restraint on travel and the new visual details becomes part of the literary effect. The borrowed words do more than repeat their earlier context.

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A borrowed line fitted to a new vignette

Iqtibās and Taḍmīn: Quoting Scripture and Incorporating Poetry

أعذاره الساري العجول توقفا ما في وقوفك ساعة من بأس
Hold back the hurried night traveller; an hour's pause would do no harm.

The poetic wording presents a hurried night traveller and a call to halt. In the textbook's discussion, an earlier hemistich is brought into a new poetic scene; the image is made to fit the second composition.

When the scene concerns features appearing on a face, the relation between a restraint on travel and the new visual details becomes part of the literary effect. The borrowed words do more than repeat their earlier context.