In the first mode, the quality is present but no specific ordinary cause of that particular condition is immediately evident. The poet assigns a new, fitting, unreal cause. The reality of the quality and the imagined explanation must not be confused.
Rain is visibly falling. The poet may say that the clouds pour because they cannot match a patron’s gifts. The attribution heightens praise through poetic imagination; it is not a meteorological explanation.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
In the first mode, the quality is present but no specific ordinary cause of that particular condition is immediately evident. The poet assigns a new, fitting, unreal cause. The reality of the quality and the imagined explanation must not be confused.
Rain is visibly falling. The poet may say that the clouds pour because they cannot match a patron’s gifts. The attribution heightens praise through poetic imagination; it is not a meteorological explanation.