«الْمَجْدُ بَيْنَ ثَوْبَيْهِ وَالْكَرَمُ بَيْنَ بُرْدَيْهِ»
“Honor lies between his two garments, and generosity between his two cloaks.”
The area between the garments evokes the person wearing them. By situating the virtues in the space immediately associated with him, the speaker effectively attributes them to that individual.
This is kināyah of attribution: its goal is to affirm the person’s honor and generosity, not merely to define those virtues.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
«الْمَجْدُ بَيْنَ ثَوْبَيْهِ وَالْكَرَمُ بَيْنَ بُرْدَيْهِ»
“Honor lies between his two garments, and generosity between his two cloaks.”
The area between the garments evokes the person wearing them. By situating the virtues in the space immediately associated with him, the speaker effectively attributes them to that individual.
This is kināyah of attribution: its goal is to affirm the person’s honor and generosity, not merely to define those virtues.