زَعَمَ رَجُلٌ أَنَّ الْعِلْمَ كَلِمَاتٌ تُحْفَظُ وَلَا تُثْمِرُ شَيْئًا.
Someone claimed that knowledge consisted of fruitless memorised words.
Zaʿama attributes the proposition to its proponent, but in some settings it also conveys distance or doubt. The subsequent rebuttal supports reading it here as a claim placed under scrutiny.
Its rhetorical colouring cannot be judged independently of the following response. Yet zaʿama does not, in every use, prove that the reported statement is false.
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Practice 2: Advanced Balāghah: Integrated Analysis of Three Arabic Passages
زَعَمَ رَجُلٌ أَنَّ الْعِلْمَ كَلِمَاتٌ تُحْفَظُ وَلَا تُثْمِرُ شَيْئًا.
Someone claimed that knowledge consisted of fruitless memorised words.
Zaʿama attributes the proposition to its proponent, but in some settings it also conveys distance or doubt. The subsequent rebuttal supports reading it here as a claim placed under scrutiny.
Its rhetorical colouring cannot be judged independently of the following response. Yet zaʿama does not, in every use, prove that the reported statement is false.