What distinguishes fāʾidat al-khabar from lāzim al-fāʾidah?
ʿIlm al-Maʿānī: Khabar, Inshāʾ and the Purposes of Reporting
- The first is always nominal, the second verbal
- The first is true and the second only false
- One conveys the claim; the other shows the speaker knows it
- One is khabar and the other inshāʾ