Durus al-Balagha — First Lessons in Arabic Rhetoric (دروس البلاغة) — Page 122

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

لَوْ كَانَ مِثْلُكَ آخَرُ مَا كَانَ فِي الدُّنْيَا فَقِيرٌ.

If there were another like you, poverty would vanish from the world.

الْمُوَارَبَةُ: هِيَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ الْمُتَكَلِّمُ كَلَامَهُ بِحَيْثُ يُمْكِنُهُ أَنْ يُغَيِّرَ مَعْنَاهُ بِتَحْرِيفٍ أَوْ تَصْحِيفٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِمَا؛ لِيَسْلَمَ مِنَ الْمُؤَاخَذَةِ،

Equivocation: A speaker crafts their words to allow for a change in meaning through slight alteration or misreading, thereby evading accountability.

كَقَوْلِ أَبِي نُوَاسٍ: لَقَدْ ضَاعَ شِعْرِي عَلَى بَابِكُمْ كَمَا ضَاعَ عِقْدٌ عَلَى خَالِصَةَ.

Consider the words of Abu Nuwas: 'My poetry has gone to waste at your door, just as a necklace was lost on Khalisah.'

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Vocabulary · المفردات (13 verbs · 30 nouns)

• كَانَ — to be
• جَعَلَ — to make
• أَمْكَنَ — to be possible
• مِثْلٌ — likeness
• آخَرُ — another
• دُنْيَا — world