Li-mā nasajat-hā min junūbin washamʾalī
which would scan:
⏑ – Qifā – nab- | ⏑ ki – min – – ẕikrā | ⏑ – – ḥabībin | ⏑ – ⏑ – wamanzilī &c.
and belongs to the first variation of the metre T̤awīl.
Emancipating himself from the fetters of metre, and gradually also of the uniform rhyme, Muḥammad created what is now called sajʿ, that is to say, a rhythmical prose, in which the component parts of a period are balanced and cadenced by a varying rhyme, and of which e.g. the Sūratu ʾl-Qiyāmah (lxxv.) offers some fair examples; as (5–10):—
Bal yurīdu ʾl-insānu li-yafjura amāmah,
Yasʾalu aiyāna yaumu ʾl-qiyāmah,
Fa-iẕā bariqa ʾl-baṣar,
Wa-k͟hasafa ʾl-qamar
Wa-jumiʿa ʾsh-shamsu wa ʾl-qamar