LessonsTafrīʿ, Praise or Blame by Apparent Exception, Ist itbāʿ and IdmājQuiz

«أحلامكم لسقام الجهل شافية»
Your forbearance heals the illness of ignorance.
«كما دماؤكم تشفي من الكلب»
Just as your blood is said to cure the disease of *kalab*.

The initial praise presents forbearance as a remedy for ignorance. The following image extends that praise through a comparison involving *kalab*, a named affliction. The poem is not a medical recommendation or evidence of a real treatment.

One healing is moral and intellectual; the other belongs to the poetic image. Their linked arrangement produces the rhetorical branch.

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The poetic example of forbearance and blood

Tafrīʿ, Praise or Blame by Apparent Exception, Ist itbāʿ and Idmāj

«أحلامكم لسقام الجهل شافية»
Your forbearance heals the illness of ignorance.
«كما دماؤكم تشفي من الكلب»
Just as your blood is said to cure the disease of *kalab*.

The initial praise presents forbearance as a remedy for ignorance. The following image extends that praise through a comparison involving *kalab*, a named affliction. The poem is not a medical recommendation or evidence of a real treatment.

One healing is moral and intellectual; the other belongs to the poetic image. Their linked arrangement produces the rhetorical branch.