LessonsPractice 4: Advanced Balāghah: Integrated Exercises and Subtle Problems of InterpretationQuiz

غَرَسَ حُبَّ الْعِلْمِ وَسَقَاهُ بِالصَّبْرِ.
He planted love of learning and watered it with patience.

The target is cultivation of love of learning; agriculture supplies the source image. Gradual growth and care motivate the comparison, not a literal claim that students’ hearts have become farmland.

The masculine object pronoun in saqāhu refers back to ḥubb (“love”). The phrase “with patience” supplies the imagined means of watering. Resolving this pronoun is essential to understanding how the image remains coherent.

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Practice 4: Advanced Balāghah: Integrated Exercises and Subtle Problems of Interpretation

غَرَسَ حُبَّ الْعِلْمِ وَسَقَاهُ بِالصَّبْرِ.
He planted love of learning and watered it with patience.

The target is cultivation of love of learning; agriculture supplies the source image. Gradual growth and care motivate the comparison, not a literal claim that students’ hearts have become farmland.

The masculine object pronoun in saqāhu refers back to ḥubb (“love”). The phrase “with patience” supplies the imagined means of watering. Resolving this pronoun is essential to understanding how the image remains coherent.