Discover the meaning of the term Ighal (إيغال) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readIt is closing the verse with what yields a point the meaning completes without, for added exaggeration, as in al-Khansa’s word in her elegy of her brother Sakhr:
It is closing the speech with what yields a point the meaning completes without; of its Quran examples: « O my people, follow the senders » to his word « well-guided »: the sense completed without « and they are well-guided », the messenger being guided necessarily; but there is added exaggeration spurring following the messenger and encouraging it. In poetry, as his word:
With kasra of the first two, of awghala in lands when going farthest therein; and awghala. Hence at-tawaghghoul. Among the ma’ani scholars: closing the verse with what yields a point the meaning completes without, as added exaggeration in al-Khansa’s word in her elegy of her brother Sakhr.
Closing the speech, or verse, with what yields a point the meaning completes without.
Closing the verse with what yields a point the meaning completes without, for added exaggeration.