فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا
Let them laugh a little and weep much.
The verbs “laugh/weep” form one opposition, while “little/much” form a second. The ordered arrangement of both pairs gives the sentence more structure than a single antonym pair.
Deleting one quantity in a hypothetical revision weakens the paired construction. An adequate analysis identifies the opposites and shows how their sequence generates muqābalah.
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فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا
Let them laugh a little and weep much.
The verbs “laugh/weep” form one opposition, while “little/much” form a second. The ordered arrangement of both pairs gives the sentence more structure than a single antonym pair.
Deleting one quantity in a hypothetical revision weakens the paired construction. An adequate analysis identifies the opposites and shows how their sequence generates muqābalah.