Mubalagha (hyperbole) intensifies a quality or deficiency beyond its ordinary presentation. Its purpose is to strengthen the rhetorical force of the claim, not necessarily to offer a literal numerical report.
Two questions guide classification:
1. How far is the attribute pushed?
2. Is the described degree possible in reason and custom, possible in reason but unusual, or impossible even in reason?
These yield the three types: tabligh, ighraq, and ghuluw.
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Semantic Embellishments II: Gathering, Differentiation, Division, Hyperbole, and Further Devices
Mubalagha (hyperbole) intensifies a quality or deficiency beyond its ordinary presentation. Its purpose is to strengthen the rhetorical force of the claim, not necessarily to offer a literal numerical report.
Two questions guide classification:
1. How far is the attribute pushed?
2. Is the described degree possible in reason and custom, possible in reason but unusual, or impossible even in reason?
These yield the three types: tabligh, ighraq, and ghuluw.