Which interpretation best fits “مَا زَيْدٌ كَاتِبًا بَلْ شَاعِرٌ” in context?
Qasr by Coordination, Negation–Exception, and Innamā
- Context and the implicit domain — I struck no one except Zayd.
- Scholarly analyses of innamā — Only; indeed no more than.
- Restriction using bal — Zayd is not a writer but a poet.
- Word order after innamā — Zayd is only a writer.