حُسْنُ التَّعْلِيلِ
Attributing an aesthetically fitting imagined cause to a quality.
For example: “His face shone with kindness, as though dawn learned brightness from him.” This illustrates a fitting imaginative claim, not a physical explanation.
First isolate the observable quality—the person’s bright expression—then the imagined causal attribution—dawn learning from it. Do not identify every ornate description as ḥusn al-taʿlīl if no asserted cause is actually present.
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حُسْنُ التَّعْلِيلِ
Attributing an aesthetically fitting imagined cause to a quality.
For example: “His face shone with kindness, as though dawn learned brightness from him.” This illustrates a fitting imaginative claim, not a physical explanation.
First isolate the observable quality—the person’s bright expression—then the imagined causal attribution—dawn learning from it. Do not identify every ornate description as ḥusn al-taʿlīl if no asserted cause is actually present.