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The heated religious arguments among adherents of different sects are making a great service for the skeptic; because each of them goes to great lengths to expose the weak points of his opponent's religious systems, while his opponent does the same. Even more so, each of them offer the skeptic with arguments to invalidate the religious system of his opponent, thereby invalidating every system involved in the discourse. That being said, the modern age offers the perfect ground for skepticism for it makes all the attacks that were waged against Religion in all times and places available to the individual at once. All the weak objections of disbelief that were dispersed across geography and history, are now concentrated into a single crusade of disbelief.

The heated religious arguments among adherents of different sects are making a great service for the skeptic; because each of them goes to great lengths to expose the weak points of his opponent's religious systems, and his opponent does the same. Even more so, each of them offer the skeptic with arguments to invalidate the religious system of his opponent, thereby invalidating every system involved in the discourse. That being said, the modern age offers the perfect ground for skepticism for it makes all the attacks that were waged against Religion in all times and places available to the individual at once.

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All religious systems, it is confessed, are subject to great and insuperable difficulties. Each disputant triumphs in his turn; while he carries on an offensive war, and exposes the absurdities, barbarities, and pernicious tenets of his antagonist. But all of them, on the whole, prepare a complete triumph for the Sceptic; who tells them, that no system ought ever to be embraced with regard to such subjects: For this plain reason, that no absurdity ought ever to be assented to with regard to any subject. A total suspense of judgement is here our only reasonable resource. And if every attack, as is commonly observed, and no defence, among Theologians, is successful; how complete must be his victory, who remains always, with all mankind, on the offensive, and has himself no fixed station or abiding city, which he is ever, on any occasion, obliged to defend? — Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume

عقد الجاحظ مقارنةً بين العجم والعرب فقال: وكل معنى للعجم، فإنما هو عن طول فكرة وعن اجتهاد رأي، وطول خلوة، وعن مشاورة ومعاونة، وعن طول التفكر ودراسة الكتب. وكل شيء للعرب فإنما هو بديهة وارتجال، وكأنه إلهام، وليست هناك معاناة ولا مكابدة، ولا إجالة فكر ولا استعانة، فما هو إلا أن يصرف وهمه إلى جملة المذهب، وإلى العمود الذي إليه يقصد، فتأتيه المعاني إرسالا، وتنثال الألفاظ انثيالا، وكان الكلام الجيد عندهم أظهر وأكثر، وهم عليه أقدر، وله أقهر، وكل واحد في نفسه أنطق، ومكانه من البيان أرفع وخطباؤهم للكلام أوجد، والكلام عليهم أسهل، وهو عليهم أيسر من أن يفتقروا إلى تحفظ، ويحتاجوا إلى تدارس لم يحفظوا إلا ما علق بقلوبهم، والتحم بصدورهم، واتصل بعقولهم، من غير تكلف ولا قصد ولا تحفظ ولا طلب.

ميحبوك لا انت ولا منشوراتك*

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Hyperbole in writing is the equivalent of raising your voice to be heard in a loud crowd. It exaggerates some ideas in the text so more attention can be paid to them.

Is the English equivalent of المبالغة. It's a figure of speech that employs rhetorical exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. It involves extravagant statements that are obviously untrue. Hyperboles are not the same as lying. Whereas hyperbolic statements are meant to be recognized and interpreted as figurative language with the intent to emphasize, lying involves making false statements with the intent to deceive. Hyperbole is common in love poetry, in which it is used to convey the lover’s intense admiration for his beloved.

«Hyperbole»

باختصار: الشاعِر حتى يوضّح مقصده، تلكاه يبالغ كلش بالوصف بحيث "يخرج عن الموجود ويدخل في باب المعدوم" بمعنى أنّه يكوم يسولف عن شي ما موجود أو غير قابل للوجود. لكن هاي المبالغة وإن كانت غير صحيحة بالمعنى الحرفي، إلا أنها كلش تساعد القارئ أو السامع بأنْ يركّز على اللي يريده الشاعِر. خاصةً بباب الغزل، تلكة الشاعر يوصف الفتاة بشي ما موجود بيها، أو يستحيل أن يوجد ببشر، بس هالشي يفيد حتى يبيّن أنها حلوة كلش، كلش

— كتاب 'نقد الشِعر' لـ قُدامة بن جعفر

الغلوّ بالشِعر عندي أَجوَدُ المذهَبَين، وهو ما ذهبَ إليه أهلُ الفهمِ بالشِعر والشُعراءُ قديمًا. وقد بَلَغَني عن بعضِهم أنّه قال: أحسَنُ الشِعرِ أكذَبُه.

هي أنْ يذكر الشاعِرُ حالًا مِن الأحوال في شِعرٍ لو وقف عليها لأجزأه [أَيْ كَفاه] ذلك في الغرض الذي قَصَدَه، فلا يقف حتى يَزيد في مَعنى ما ذَكَرَه من تلك الحال ما يكون أبلغَ فيما قَصَد له

«المبالغة»

- Lisa Sanders

In medicine, it is essential to rule out diseases that can kill, and then move on to those that may only make you wish you were dead.