أَوْ حُكْمًا، كَمَا تَقُولُ: «اشْتَرَيْتُ الْعَبْدَ كُلَّهُ»، وَلَا تَقُولُ: «أَكْرَمْتُ الْعَبْدَ كُلَّهُ».
Translation: Or the parts may be conceptually divisible: “I purchased the entire slave,” but the book rejects “I honored the entire slave” in that intended sense.
The distinction lies in the nature of the act: purchasing can concern a part or the whole; honoring, in the book’s specific contrast, is not partitioned that way. Do not overgeneralize beyond the stated context.
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Tawkīd: Verbal and Semantic Emphasis
أَوْ حُكْمًا، كَمَا تَقُولُ: «اشْتَرَيْتُ الْعَبْدَ كُلَّهُ»، وَلَا تَقُولُ: «أَكْرَمْتُ الْعَبْدَ كُلَّهُ».
Translation: Or the parts may be conceptually divisible: “I purchased the entire slave,” but the book rejects “I honored the entire slave” in that intended sense.
The distinction lies in the nature of the act: purchasing can concern a part or the whole; honoring, in the book’s specific contrast, is not partitioned that way. Do not overgeneralize beyond the stated context.