LessonsFurther Conditional Rhetoric: In, Idha, Tense and Indirect ImplicationQuiz

ClauseRoleIntended event
إِنْ جِئْتَنِيCondition / antecedentYour coming is posited
أَكْرَمْتُكَResponse / consequentHonoring occurs in connection with that coming

The madhmun is the occurrence conveyed by the words, not the syllables alone. This explains why the passage repeatedly discusses husul, the occurrence of an event.

A past morphological form can convey future occurrence in a conditional frame; the past form of jiʾtani or akramtuka cannot by itself settle the time of the whole construction.

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The two occurrences, not merely two clauses

Further Conditional Rhetoric: In, Idha, Tense and Indirect Implication

ClauseRoleIntended event
إِنْ جِئْتَنِيCondition / antecedentYour coming is posited
أَكْرَمْتُكَResponse / consequentHonoring occurs in connection with that coming

The madhmun is the occurrence conveyed by the words, not the syllables alone. This explains why the passage repeatedly discusses husul, the occurrence of an event.

A past morphological form can convey future occurrence in a conditional frame; the past form of jiʾtani or akramtuka cannot by itself settle the time of the whole construction.