هُوَ شَمْسٌ وَأَسَدٌ وَبَحْرٌ جُودًا وَبَهَاءً وَشَجَاعَةً
He is a sun, a lion and a sea: in generosity, splendor and courage.
The sun corresponds to splendor, the lion to courage, and the sea to generosity. The attributes in the quoted arrangement do not follow the order of the three images. Reordering them as “splendor, courage, generosity” makes the distribution ordered without changing the semantic pairing.
Yet ordered is not simply synonymous with superior. Other artistic factors may justify the original arrangement. The critical task is to identify pairing first and evaluate its effect second.