LessonsSix Kinds of Metaphor by Source, Target, and Common FeatureQuiz

فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ
Proclaim clearly what you are commanded to convey.

Ṣadʿ has a sensory meaning associated with cracking or splitting something solid, such as glass. The image is borrowed for the decisive, open declaration of a commanded message, a conceptual communicative act.

Source: the physical splitting of a solid object.
Target: making the command manifest through proclamation.
Common feature: overcoming concealment or obstruction so that something becomes openly manifest; an intellectual relation.

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Sensory source, conceptual target: proclamation

Six Kinds of Metaphor by Source, Target, and Common Feature

فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ
Proclaim clearly what you are commanded to convey.

Ṣadʿ has a sensory meaning associated with cracking or splitting something solid, such as glass. The image is borrowed for the decisive, open declaration of a commanded message, a conceptual communicative act.

Source: the physical splitting of a solid object.
Target: making the command manifest through proclamation.
Common feature: overcoming concealment or obstruction so that something becomes openly manifest; an intellectual relation.