«أَنْتَ الْحُسْنُ وَلَكِنْ جَفَاكَ فِينَا يَزِيدُ»
You are beauty itself, but your estrangement toward us increases.
“Yazīd” can be read both as a proper name and as a verb meaning “increases.” Tawriyah requires an apparent, nearer meaning alongside an intended, more remote one, supported by appropriate clues.
Not every ambiguous term establishes tawriyah. If the near and far readings lack a purposeful rhetorical relationship in the passage, lexical ambiguity alone is insufficient.
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Supplementary Practice — Advanced Rhetorical Analysis and Worked Texts
«أَنْتَ الْحُسْنُ وَلَكِنْ جَفَاكَ فِينَا يَزِيدُ»
You are beauty itself, but your estrangement toward us increases.
“Yazīd” can be read both as a proper name and as a verb meaning “increases.” Tawriyah requires an apparent, nearer meaning alongside an intended, more remote one, supported by appropriate clues.
Not every ambiguous term establishes tawriyah. If the near and far readings lack a purposeful rhetorical relationship in the passage, lexical ambiguity alone is insufficient.