LessonsVerbal Embellishments: Complete and Incomplete Jinās, Reversal, Derivation and Quasi-DerivationQuiz

«لاحَ أنوارُ الهدى ... في كلِّ حال»
The lights of guidance have appeared in every circumstance.

The consonants of «لاح» appear in reverse order in «حال». When a passage sets one reversed form near its beginning and the other toward its end, the special arrangement is known as winged reversal (maqlūb mujannaḥ).

Two features matter: reversal of the letters and placement at opposite ends. An analysis concerned with the words alone would miss why this positional label is used.

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Winged reversal at the two ends

Verbal Embellishments: Complete and Incomplete Jinās, Reversal, Derivation and Quasi-Derivation

«لاحَ أنوارُ الهدى ... في كلِّ حال»
The lights of guidance have appeared in every circumstance.

The consonants of «لاح» appear in reverse order in «حال». When a passage sets one reversed form near its beginning and the other toward its end, the special arrangement is known as winged reversal (maqlūb mujannaḥ).

Two features matter: reversal of the letters and placement at opposite ends. An analysis concerned with the words alone would miss why this positional label is used.