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

عَلَّمَ الْمُعَلِّمُ تَلَامِيذَهُ الصَّبْرَ وَحُبَّ الْعِلْمِ، فَانْتَفَعُوا بِذَلِكَ فِي أَعْمَالِهِمْ.
The teacher taught patience and love of learning, and the students benefited in their conduct.

The literal paraphrase retains the proposition that teaching led to practical benefit, but loses the vivid temporal imagery of planting, tending and fruiting. The informational core survives while its rhetorical effect changes.

The explicit version may suit a factual report; the sustained image may better serve an exhortation. Neither figurative nor literal diction is intrinsically superior in every communicative setting.

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A literal paraphrase and its loss

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

عَلَّمَ الْمُعَلِّمُ تَلَامِيذَهُ الصَّبْرَ وَحُبَّ الْعِلْمِ، فَانْتَفَعُوا بِذَلِكَ فِي أَعْمَالِهِمْ.
The teacher taught patience and love of learning, and the students benefited in their conduct.

The literal paraphrase retains the proposition that teaching led to practical benefit, but loses the vivid temporal imagery of planting, tending and fruiting. The informational core survives while its rhetorical effect changes.

The explicit version may suit a factual report; the sustained image may better serve an exhortation. Neither figurative nor literal diction is intrinsically superior in every communicative setting.