Which interpretation best fits “هَلْ لِي مِنْ شَفِيعٍ” in context?
Inshāʾ and Tamannī: Requests, Wishing, Exhortation, and Reproach
- Lawlā and lawmā — Why do you not do so?
- Wishing versus exhortation — Would that / Why not (do it)?
- Two senses of inshāʾ — Inshāʾ can denote the utterance or the speaker’s act of producing it.
- Interrogative hal used as a wish — Would that I had an intercessor.