LessonsSupplementary Practice 2: Editing Rhetorical Expression, Context and ReasoningQuiz

أَوْفَى زَيْدٌ بِعَهْدِهِ. الْوَفَاءُ خُلُقُ الْكِرَامِ.
Zayd fulfilled his promise. Fidelity is a virtue of honorable people.

The first clause reports a particular event; the second supports it with a more general maxim. This is a plausible tadhyīl, since an independent assertion embraces and reinforces the preceding meaning.

If the second merely restated 'Zayd kept his promise' in near-identical terms, repetition would be more salient. Tadhyīl adds a separately phrased confirming principle.

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Tadhyīl: a general maxim following a specific case

Supplementary Practice 2: Editing Rhetorical Expression, Context and Reasoning

أَوْفَى زَيْدٌ بِعَهْدِهِ. الْوَفَاءُ خُلُقُ الْكِرَامِ.
Zayd fulfilled his promise. Fidelity is a virtue of honorable people.

The first clause reports a particular event; the second supports it with a more general maxim. This is a plausible tadhyīl, since an independent assertion embraces and reinforces the preceding meaning.

If the second merely restated 'Zayd kept his promise' in near-identical terms, repetition would be more salient. Tadhyīl adds a separately phrased confirming principle.