What can the general second clause do in “awfā Khālidun bi-waʿdih. Al-wafāʾ khuluqun karīmun”?
Supplementary Practice 4: Audience, Emphasis, Restriction and Rhetorical Judgment
- Reinforce the particular event by a general maxim, as in tadhyīl
- Change the first report from past to future
- Turn an agent into an object
- Eliminate truth-evaluability of the first report