لَمَّا ابْتَسَمَ الصُّبْحُ لِلْمَدِينَةِ، خَرَجَ أَهْلُهَا إِلَى أَعْمَالِهِمْ؛ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ طَلَبَ رِزْقًا، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ فَتَحَ بَابًا لِلْعِلْمِ.
As morning smiled upon the city, people went to their work: some sought livelihood and others learning.
لَيْسَ الْجِدُّ زِينَةً لِلْقَوْلِ، بَلْ هُوَ عَمَلٌ تَشْهَدُ لَهُ الْأَيَّامُ.
Serious effort is not decoration for speech, but work whose worth the days bear witness to.
فَهَلْ يَسْتَوِي مَنْ يَعِدُ وَمَنْ يَفِي؟
Can the one who promises and the one who fulfils be equal?
إِنَّ الْعَمَلَ الصَّادِقَ أَبْقَى أَثَرًا مِنْ قَوْلٍ تَذْهَبُ بِهِ الرِّيحُ.
Surely sincere action lasts longer in effect than words carried off by the wind.
The passage proceeds through scene-setting, a corrective claim, a rhetorical question and a reinforced conclusion. The sequence places substantive effort above the ornament of mere words.
These sentences are original illustrative prose composed for this supplementary level, not quotations from Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, scripture or classical poetry. They are used to apply previously studied rules.