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      "english": "Whoever sows goodness reaps the love of people, / and whoever gives generously will find lasting praise.",
      "explanation": "A constructed verse in which the first hemistich functions as a detachable proverbial saying expressing a generalised moral truth, while the second hemistich completes the verse. The first hemistich illustrates the mechanism of irsāl al-mathal, where part of a verse forms a detachable unit capable of functioning proverbially beyond its immediate context.[1]"
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      "arabic": "إِذَا جَاءَ مُوسَى وَأَلْقَى الْعَصَا فَقَدْ بَطَلَ السِّحْرُ وَالسَّاحِرُ",
      "english": "When Moses came and cast down the staff, the magic and the magician were undone.",
      "explanation": "Cited by Nāṣif et al. (2012) as an example of a complete proverbial verse.[1]"
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      "arabic": "جَمْعُ الْكَلَامِ إِذَا لَمْ تُغْنِ حِكْمَتُهُ وُجُودُهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الذَّوْقِ كَالْعَدَمِ",
      "english": "Speech, if its wisdom does not avail, is as nothing to people of taste.",
      "explanation": "Recorded by ʿAkkāwī (1996) as an illustrative example cited by Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī for al-kalām al-jāmiʿ, showing a complete verse functioning as a general maxim.[2]"
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      "arabic": "إِذَا كَانَتِ النُّفُوسُ كِبَارًا تَعِبَتْ فِي مُرَادِهَا الْأَجْسَامُ",
      "english": "When souls are great, bodies grow weary in pursuing their aims.",
      "explanation": "Cited by ʿAkkāwī (1996) and attributed to al-Mutanabbī as an example of a complete verse functioning as a general proverbial maxim.[2]"
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      "arabic": "إِذَا ضَاقَتِ الدُّنْيَا بِأَهْلِ الْعَزِيمَةِ فَتَحَتْ لَهُمُ الْهِمَّةُ أَبْوَابَ الْمُسْتَحِيلِ",
      "english": "When the world grows narrow for those of firm resolve, / their ambition opens for them the doors of the impossible.",
      "explanation": "A complete verse functioning as a general maxim applicable beyond any single context — illustrating al-kalām al-jāmiʿ, where the whole verse runs in the manner of proverbs (tajrī majrā al-mathal)."
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