فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ
Yet you would detest it.
This response closes the preceding graphic comparison between backbiting and eating a dead brother’s flesh. The discourse makes a moral violation palpable through an intensely repellent sensory image.
The passage works by powerful comparison, not by claiming that backbiting is literally flesh-eating. Analyse the moral analogy without collapsing image into physical description.
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Practice 5: Advanced Applied Balāghah in Selected Qur’anic Passages
فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ
Yet you would detest it.
This response closes the preceding graphic comparison between backbiting and eating a dead brother’s flesh. The discourse makes a moral violation palpable through an intensely repellent sensory image.
The passage works by powerful comparison, not by claiming that backbiting is literally flesh-eating. Analyse the moral analogy without collapsing image into physical description.