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«فَأَبْرَزْتُ دِينَارًا وَقُلْتُ لَهُ اخْتِبَارًا: إِنْ مَدَحْتَهُ نَظْمًا فَهُوَ لَكَ حَتْمًا»
I produced a dinar and said as a test: If you praise it in verse, it will certainly be yours.

In madaḥtahu naẓman states a condition using a perfect verb; the pronoun refers to the dinar. Fa-huwa laka ḥatman is a nominal consequence linked by fāʾ, a normal construction when a conditional answer is a nominal sentence.

Naẓman specifies verse as the required manner of praise. The offer does not confer immediate possession: ownership follows only when the poetic task is performed.

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Conditional promise attached to a dinar

Arabic Syntax Practicum — Parsing Passages from Ten Maqāmāt

«فَأَبْرَزْتُ دِينَارًا وَقُلْتُ لَهُ اخْتِبَارًا: إِنْ مَدَحْتَهُ نَظْمًا فَهُوَ لَكَ حَتْمًا»
I produced a dinar and said as a test: If you praise it in verse, it will certainly be yours.

In madaḥtahu naẓman states a condition using a perfect verb; the pronoun refers to the dinar. Fa-huwa laka ḥatman is a nominal consequence linked by fāʾ, a normal construction when a conditional answer is a nominal sentence.

Naẓman specifies verse as the required manner of praise. The offer does not confer immediate possession: ownership follows only when the poetic task is performed.