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Quranic Terms
Intermediate
Rhetoric
Simile, Metaphor, and Metonymy in the Quran
Simile (tashbih): Comparison with particle — "Their example is like one who kindles a fire" (2:17).
Metaphor (isti'ara): Without partic…
Quranic Rhetoric
Advanced
Glorification
The Eloquent Simile — The Highest Form of Comparison
Simile types by particle: Mursal (explicit particle), Muakkad (no particle — eloquent simile), Mujmal (no stated point of comparison), Muf…
Quranic Rhetoric
Intermediate
Glorification
Those Who Spend Are Like a Grain — Multiplication of Giving in a Plant Image
Verse: "The example of those who spend in the way of Allah is like a grain that sprouts seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains." (2:261…
Quranic Rhetoric
Advanced
Glorification
Those Who Disbelieve Are Like a Dog — The Most Degrading Image for One Who Chose This World
Verse: "His example is like that of a dog — if you chase it away it pants, and if you leave it it pants." (7:176)
The simile's signific…
Quranic Rhetoric
Advanced
Glorification
The Eloquent Simile Transcended — "They Are Like Cattle, Rather More Astray"
Simile then transcendence: Sometimes the Quran does not stop at the simile — it transcends it with "bal" (rather) to establish that the co…
Quranic Rhetoric
Basic
Simile
Description for Accepted Hyperbole — "Like Mountains" Describing Ships
Verse: "And among His signs are the ships sailing the sea like mountains." (42:32) Meaning: Among Allah's signs are the ships sailing t…
Quranic Rhetoric
Advanced
Implicit Simile
Implicit Simile — Meaning Embedded in the Texture of the Verse
Definition of implicit simile: A simile without explicit comparison particle or explicit terms — it is inferred from the spirit and contex…
Quranic Rhetoric
Intermediate
Glorification
Al-Tashbih Al-Tamthili — "Like a Donkey Carrying Books"
Definition of Al-Tashbih Al-Tamthili:
Representational simile: a comparison where the point of resemblance is a composite image drawn fro…
Quranic Rhetoric
Advanced
Glorification
Exaggeration in Simile — "As If They Were Trunks of Uprooted Palms"
Definition of exaggeration in simile:
When a simile reaches such precision and depth that the listener feels the compared and the compari…