فَانْفَتَحَتْ لِلْفَرَحِ قُلُوبٌ طَالَ انْتِظَارُهَا.
Then hearts long burdened by waiting opened in joy.
The hearts are pictured as opening like a physical enclosure. The intended meaning is emotional relief, not a literal anatomical event. Infaṭaḥat makes that change vivid and sudden.
The image also echoes the door just reached in the story: external arrival is followed by an inward opening. Their thematic correspondence does not make the words a case of paronomasia.
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Practice 2: Advanced Balāghah: Integrated Analysis of Three Arabic Passages
فَانْفَتَحَتْ لِلْفَرَحِ قُلُوبٌ طَالَ انْتِظَارُهَا.
Then hearts long burdened by waiting opened in joy.
The hearts are pictured as opening like a physical enclosure. The intended meaning is emotional relief, not a literal anatomical event. Infaṭaḥat makes that change vivid and sudden.
The image also echoes the door just reached in the story: external arrival is followed by an inward opening. Their thematic correspondence does not make the words a case of paronomasia.