Why is “سَافِرْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ” inshāʾ?
ʿIlm al-Maʿānī: Khabar, Inshāʾ and the Purposes of Reporting
- It truthfully reports a journey
- It consists only of two nouns
- It reports the speaker’s knowledge
- It commands travel without asserting its occurrence
ʿIlm al-Maʿānī: Khabar, Inshāʾ and the Purposes of Reporting