Why does a count “with tanwīn” require care?
Musāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of Qiṣāṣ
- Because tanwīn always deletes a whole word
- Because it makes the verse conditional
- Because pronounced-letter counts may differ from modern written-character counts
- Because tanwīn belongs only to past-tense verbs