Subject–Object Roles in Muṭāwaʿah

Ten Semantic Functions of Form X (Istifʿāl): Seeking, Suitability, Finding, Judging, Transformation, Adoption, Abbreviation, Response, Equivalence and Independent Use

أَقَمْتُهُ فَاسْتَقَامَ
Translation: I straightened it, so it became straight.

ClauseSubjectAffected participant
أَقَمْتُهُ“I” (تُ)“it” as object (هُ)
فَاسْتَقَامَThe formerly affected entityNow subject of an intransitive result

The entity that undergoes the action is the object of the first clause but the subject of the second. This syntactic shift makes the result relationship visible. This is the textbook's chosen illustration of muṭāwaʿah.