كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِئِينَ
Be apes, despised.
“Be apes, despised” illustrates taskhīr, the imperative used for imposed transformation or subjugation. The act is not an ordinary voluntary task in the audience’s power.
Kūnū is morphologically imperative, and qiradatan completes its predicative sense. Rhetorically, the focus is an effected transformation, rather than permission or a moral instruction to choose some conduct.
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The Imperative: Form, Basic Meaning, Rhetorical Uses and Timing
كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِئِينَ
Be apes, despised.
“Be apes, despised” illustrates taskhīr, the imperative used for imposed transformation or subjugation. The act is not an ordinary voluntary task in the audience’s power.
Kūnū is morphologically imperative, and qiradatan completes its predicative sense. Rhetorically, the focus is an effected transformation, rather than permission or a moral instruction to choose some conduct.