In the textbook’s account, what is the rhetorical role of “fa-qad kudhdhiba” in this conditional passage?
Ījāz al-Ḥadhf: Forms of Ellipsis and Evidence for Recovering the Omitted
- It cancels the condition
- It gives the reason for an omitted consoling response in its place
- It modifies an omitted subject
- It is merely a supplication