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«فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ»
Freeing a person from bondage.

Raqabah literally denotes a neck, but here freeing a neck means emancipating the enslaved person, not detaching a part of the body. A part stands for the person as a whole.

That is the juzʾiyyah (part-for-whole) relationship, the reverse of the preceding example. A complete answer states the mentioned part, the intended whole, and their relationship.

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Passage 17: a part used for the whole

Supplementary Comprehensive Examination — Advanced Arabic Texts and Evidence-Based Rhetorical Analysis

«فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ»
Freeing a person from bondage.

Raqabah literally denotes a neck, but here freeing a neck means emancipating the enslaved person, not detaching a part of the body. A part stands for the person as a whole.

That is the juzʾiyyah (part-for-whole) relationship, the reverse of the preceding example. A complete answer states the mentioned part, the intended whole, and their relationship.