Which statement correctly explains the aspect “Wishing for the impossible” in the example “لَيْتَ الشَّبَابَ يَعُودُ يَوْمًا”?
Inshāʾ and Tamannī: Requests, Wishing, Exhortation, and Reproach
- Subjunctive after fāʾ — If only you came and spoke with me.
- Past and present verbs — Why do you not do it? / Why did you not do it?
- Two senses of inshāʾ — Inshāʾ can denote the utterance or the speaker’s act of producing it.
- Wishing for the impossible — Would that youth might return one day.