LessonsSupplementary Practice 16: Observing the Sky, Evidential Scope and Rhetorical PrecisionQuiz

لَمْ يَنْسُبِ الطُّلَّابُ إِلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ مَا لَمْ يَرَوْهُ. وَالصِّدْقُ أَصْلُ الْعِلْمِ.
The students did not attribute unseen observations to themselves. Truthfulness is the foundation of knowledge.

The first is a particular report; the second articulates a general principle reinforcing its value. A self-contained, generalizing follow-up of this kind may function as tadhyīl when it confirms the prior meaning.

Al-ṣidqu aṣlu al-ʿilm is an independent predication, not a mere qualifier added within the initial sentence. That helps distinguish tadhyīl from tatmīm.

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Tadhyīl after a particular report

Supplementary Practice 16: Observing the Sky, Evidential Scope and Rhetorical Precision

لَمْ يَنْسُبِ الطُّلَّابُ إِلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ مَا لَمْ يَرَوْهُ. وَالصِّدْقُ أَصْلُ الْعِلْمِ.
The students did not attribute unseen observations to themselves. Truthfulness is the foundation of knowledge.

The first is a particular report; the second articulates a general principle reinforcing its value. A self-contained, generalizing follow-up of this kind may function as tadhyīl when it confirms the prior meaning.

Al-ṣidqu aṣlu al-ʿilm is an independent predication, not a mere qualifier added within the initial sentence. That helps distinguish tadhyīl from tatmīm.