LessonsIʿtirāḍ and the Relative Measure of Ījāz and Iṭnāb — Concluding Volume 1Quiz

Iʿtirāḍ becomes rhetorically effective only when the inserted clause offers a fitting nuktah: supplication, divine glorification, praise, warning, or a strengthening of meaning. An otherwise grammatical sentence does not become eloquent merely because it has been placed inside another.

The restriction “for a point other than averting an implication” distinguishes this technical category from iḥtirās, whose particular function is to block an unintended reading suggested by earlier words.

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Iʿtirāḍ and the Relative Measure of Ījāz and Iṭnāb — Concluding Volume 1

Iʿtirāḍ becomes rhetorically effective only when the inserted clause offers a fitting nuktah: supplication, divine glorification, praise, warning, or a strengthening of meaning. An otherwise grammatical sentence does not become eloquent merely because it has been placed inside another.

The restriction “for a point other than averting an implication” distinguishes this technical category from iḥtirās, whose particular function is to block an unintended reading suggested by earlier words.