What objection is illustrated by “نَهَارُهُ صَائِمٌ” against the alternative analysis?
ʿIlm al-Maʿānī: Predication, Emphasis, and Rational Metaphor
- Treating every noun as a substitution for the real agent strains the possessive and predicative relations
- It is merely a question
- Figurative attribution is impossible
- Day is not an Arabic word