In ayyuhā al-nāṭiq, ayyu is the vocative noun, hā a particle drawing attention, and al-nāṭiq its identifying description. Al-muballigh adds a further description of the same person.
Hal ordinarily introduces a question. Here it conveys reproach or rhetorical objection: when will the allegations stop? In li-dhāka intihāʾun, the prepositional phrase may serve as an advanced predicate and intihāʾun as the delayed subject.
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al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah: Courtroom Advocacy, Three Proofs and Battle Similes (verses 47–55)
In ayyuhā al-nāṭiq, ayyu is the vocative noun, hā a particle drawing attention, and al-nāṭiq its identifying description. Al-muballigh adds a further description of the same person.
Hal ordinarily introduces a question. Here it conveys reproach or rhetorical objection: when will the allegations stop? In li-dhāka intihāʾun, the prepositional phrase may serve as an advanced predicate and intihāʾun as the delayed subject.