LessonsThe Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-TaʿlīlQuiz

يا واشياً حسنت فينا إساءته
O informer, even your offense has become a good deed toward us.

The poet imagines that the informer’s misconduct becomes praiseworthy because it saves the pupil of the eye from drowning in tears. It is possible for weeping to stop, but the particular scene and moral reversal are imaginatively asserted rather than established facts.

Unestablished possible quality: the informer's harm becomes beneficial.
Imagined cause: protecting the eye’s “person” from drowning in tears.

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The informer and the eye saved from drowning

The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl

يا واشياً حسنت فينا إساءته
O informer, even your offense has become a good deed toward us.

The poet imagines that the informer’s misconduct becomes praiseworthy because it saves the pupil of the eye from drowning in tears. It is possible for weeping to stop, but the particular scene and moral reversal are imaginatively asserted rather than established facts.

Unestablished possible quality: the informer's harm becomes beneficial.
Imagined cause: protecting the eye’s “person” from drowning in tears.