إِذَا مَلِكٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ ذَا هِبَةٍ فَدَعْهُ فَدَوْلَتُهُ ذَاهِبَةٌ
If a king does not give gifts, leave him, for his reign is passing away.
In mutashabih, one side is a single word and the other a combination of words whose overall pronunciation and written shape can match it. “Dhā hibah” (“possessor of a gift”) contrasts with “dhāhibah” (“departing”).
One is a two-word construction; the other is one word. The different meanings and grammatical segmentation make the verbal resemblance rhetorically effective.