الرجوع: وهو العود إلى الكلام السابق بالنقض
Rujūʿ returns to a preceding statement in order to negate or overturn it.
A statement or description is first put forward, after which the speaker retracts or corrects it. Rhetorical rujūʿ uses that reversal of assertion purposefully—for example to intensify longing, sorrow, astonishment, or praise.
A bare correction of an accidental mistake is not automatically an ornament of speech. The retraction must contribute to the intended expressive effect.