LessonsQalb, Tashrīʿ and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam: Completing the Verbal OrnamentsQuiz

Sajʿ produces correspondence between endings of separate prose units. Tashrīʿ is a single poetic verse intentionally admitting two different valid rhyme stops.

Sajʿ is assessed through prose endings and their sounds; tashrīʿ must additionally satisfy poetic metre. A sequence of similarly rhymed prose clauses is therefore not automatically tashrīʿ.

In “yā khāṭib al-dunyā...,” the relevant feature is not two separate prose units but the two possible completions of one verse.

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Tashrīʿ contrasted with sajʿ

Qalb, Tashrīʿ and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam: Completing the Verbal Ornaments

Sajʿ produces correspondence between endings of separate prose units. Tashrīʿ is a single poetic verse intentionally admitting two different valid rhyme stops.

Sajʿ is assessed through prose endings and their sounds; tashrīʿ must additionally satisfy poetic metre. A sequence of similarly rhymed prose clauses is therefore not automatically tashrīʿ.

In “yā khāṭib al-dunyā...,” the relevant feature is not two separate prose units but the two possible completions of one verse.