Durus al-Balagha — First Lessons in Arabic Rhetoric (دروس البلاغة) — Page 120

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

دُرُوسُ الْبَلَاغَةِ.

Lessons in Rhetoric.

النَّاسَ وَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَن تَخْشَاهُ، وَقَوْلُكَ: سَائِلُ اللَّئِيمِ يَرْجِعُ وَدَمْعُهُ سَائِلٌ، الْأَوَّلُ مِنَ السُّؤَالِ، وَالثَّانِي مِنَ السَّيَلَانِ، وَنَحْوُ: اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا، وَنَحْوُ: قَالَ إِنِّي لِعَمَلِكُم مِّنَ الْقَالِينَ.

[Such as the saying] 'Fear the people, while Allah is more worthy that you should fear Him,' and your saying: 'The beggar of the mean man returns while his tear is flowing'—the first [word] is from asking, and the second is from flowing—and such as: 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord; indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver,' and such as: 'He said, "Indeed, I am, toward your deeds, among those who detest [them]."'

وَفِي النَّظْمِ: أَنْ يَكُونَ أَحَدُهُمَا فِي آخِرِ الْبَيْتِ، وَالْآخَرُ فِي صَدْرِ الْمِصْرَاعِ الْأَوَّلِ، أَوْ بَعْدَهُ، نَحْوُ قَوْلِهِ: سَرِيعٌ إِلَى ابْنِ الْعَمِّ يَلْطِمُ وَجْهَهُ، وَلَيْسَ إِلَى دَاعِي النَّدَى بِسَرِيعِ.

In poetry, it is for one of them to be at the end of the verse and the other at the beginning of the first hemistich, or after it, such as his saying: 'Quick to strike the face of his cousin, and not quick to the caller of generosity.'

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Vocabulary · المفردات (9 verbs · 49 nouns)

• خَشِيَ — to fear
• رَجَعَ — to return
• اِسْتَغْفَرَ — to ask for forgiveness
• دَرْسٌ — lesson
• بَلَاغَةٌ — rhetoric
• نَاسٌ — people