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فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ ۝ وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ
In it are raised couches and arranged cups.

The terminal words marfūʿah and mawḍūʿah share a patterned ending and a compatible form. The Qur’anic term fawāṣil should be respected while comparing their sounds with the technical study of sajʿ.

A constructed replacement may preserve comparable metre but break the final-letter correspondence. That illustrates why verbal balancing and sajʿ need separate tests for weight and terminal sound.

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Case 17: Comparing terminal words for sajʿ

Supplementary Integrated Rhetoric Workshop: Text Analysis, Stylistic Revision and Worked Applications

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ ۝ وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ
In it are raised couches and arranged cups.

The terminal words marfūʿah and mawḍūʿah share a patterned ending and a compatible form. The Qur’anic term fawāṣil should be respected while comparing their sounds with the technical study of sajʿ.

A constructed replacement may preserve comparable metre but break the final-letter correspondence. That illustrates why verbal balancing and sajʿ need separate tests for weight and terminal sound.