كَأَنَّ فَرِيقَ الْعَامِلِينَ خَلِيَّةُ نَحْلٍ؛ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ عَمَلٌ يُتِمُّ عَمَلَ غَيْرِهِ.
The working team is like a beehive; each member’s work completes another’s.
The comparison is not between one worker and one bee in a single attribute. It concerns an overall configuration: coordination, differing roles and a shared outcome.
In tashbīh tamthīl, the common feature is a composite scene or relation. Sentence length alone does not make a simile representative.
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Practice 1: Supplementary Advanced Balāghah: Applied Context, Structure and Figures
كَأَنَّ فَرِيقَ الْعَامِلِينَ خَلِيَّةُ نَحْلٍ؛ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ عَمَلٌ يُتِمُّ عَمَلَ غَيْرِهِ.
The working team is like a beehive; each member’s work completes another’s.
The comparison is not between one worker and one bee in a single attribute. It concerns an overall configuration: coordination, differing roles and a shared outcome.
In tashbīh tamthīl, the common feature is a composite scene or relation. Sentence length alone does not make a simile representative.