The section establishes four dimensions of law: hypothetical premise, its inferential relation to a consequence, rhetorical use of tense and aspect, and optative or vivid descriptive use. Attention to the speaker’s purpose prevents grammatical and logical confusion.
Compare law jiʾtani, law yutiʿukum, wa-law tara and law kanu muslimin. The particle participates in several distinct expressive designs and is not reducible to one fixed English or Urdu translation.
Immediately after the final discussion on printed page 296, a new section begins: tankir al-musnad, the rhetorical functions of making the predicate indefinite.