LessonsTajrīd: Definition, Seven Forms, and Rhetorical IntensificationQuiz

أَنْ يُنْتَزَعَ مِنْ أَمْرٍ ذِي صِفَةٍ أَمْرٌ آخَرُ مِثْلُهُ فِيهَا
To extract, from something possessing a quality, another thing resembling it in that quality.

Dhī ṣifah denotes the first bearer. Amr ākhar denotes the counterpart imagined as extracted; mithluhu fīhā limits the likeness to the relevant characteristic, not complete identity in every respect.

Extraction is figurative rather than physical. It establishes a heightened impression that the characteristic is exceptionally established or complete in the original bearer.

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Tajrīd: Definition, Seven Forms, and Rhetorical Intensification

أَنْ يُنْتَزَعَ مِنْ أَمْرٍ ذِي صِفَةٍ أَمْرٌ آخَرُ مِثْلُهُ فِيهَا
To extract, from something possessing a quality, another thing resembling it in that quality.

Dhī ṣifah denotes the first bearer. Amr ākhar denotes the counterpart imagined as extracted; mithluhu fīhā limits the likeness to the relevant characteristic, not complete identity in every respect.

Extraction is figurative rather than physical. It establishes a heightened impression that the characteristic is exceptionally established or complete in the original bearer.