«وَتَخْشَى النَّاسَ وَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَنْ تَخْشَاهُ»
You fear people, while God is more deserving that you fear Him.
Takhshā appears earlier and takhshāhu closes the expression. The verbs share a root and a strongly linked meaning. The verbal return reinforces the redirection of fear to God.
The example shows that the verbal figure can serve the thought rather than merely repeating a sound.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«وَتَخْشَى النَّاسَ وَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَنْ تَخْشَاهُ»
You fear people, while God is more deserving that you fear Him.
Takhshā appears earlier and takhshāhu closes the expression. The verbs share a root and a strongly linked meaning. The verbal return reinforces the redirection of fear to God.
The example shows that the verbal figure can serve the thought rather than merely repeating a sound.