10.5 Examples

The example is something that represents other things of the same kind or there is something common in both things.

The examples, as an educational method, depends upon highlighting the meaning and gives it a body or a shape that makes it recognizable and understandable. The example method or style has got four pillars for its structure which are;

1.	The meaning or the ambiguous thing we need to recognize.

2.	The word that indicates the example (like).

3.	The thing that is used to clarify the meaning wanted.

4.	A relation or common feature or quality the same in the two meaning and the thing.

An example is "Ali is Like the lion in courage" by analyzing this example.

Ali's courage is the meaning we don't exactly its amount

"Like" is the word indicates the example.

"The lion" is the thing used and known its courage.

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"Courage" is the common feature in both Ali and the lion.

This example may make us fear fighting against Ali. So this example is of an effect on us and it is better than saying "Ali is brave" alone for somebody may say "I am brave, than him".

This method is much found in the Holy Quran as a method of teaching or causing a desired effect. These examples varied in their length and in their aims. It gives examples for the good word and the bad word, the Jewish who holding the Torah, polytheists and more.

In the Sonna, the Prophet (pbuh) used this method in most of his Hadith, speeches and instructions by the things around him in order to vacillate the meanings and to motivate them either to work and to do or to avoid.

Also his examples varied in length where there were the short examples as well as the long ones.

One of his examples is "The one whose inside is out of something of Quran is like the ravage house". Another of the longer ones is "the example of the believer who recites the Quran is like the sweet orange which tasted good and smells good, while the believer who does not recite the Quran is like the date which has no smell but tasted good. And the example of the hypocrite who recites the Quran is like the basil which smells good but tasted bad and the example of the hypocrite who does not recite the Quran is like the colocynth which smells bad and tastes bad".

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So, we find that the examples turns the abstract meanings to a meaning that is easy to recognize and to understand by the learners or the listener the more clear and strong is the relation or the common features, the more effects that will be of the examples.