وَمُهَفْهَفٍ كَالْغُصْنِ قُلْتُ لَهُ انْتَصِبْ، فَأَجَابَ: «مَا قَتْلُ الْمُحِبِّ حَرَامٌ».
Translation: I told a slender figure, like a branch, to stand upright. He replied: “The killing of a lover is not forbidden.”
This is literary hyperbole. It is cited as grammatical evidence of non-governing mā, not as a moral or legal assertion.
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The Predicate of Mā and Lā Resembling Laysa
وَمُهَفْهَفٍ كَالْغُصْنِ قُلْتُ لَهُ انْتَصِبْ، فَأَجَابَ: «مَا قَتْلُ الْمُحِبِّ حَرَامٌ».
Translation: I told a slender figure, like a branch, to stand upright. He replied: “The killing of a lover is not forbidden.”
This is literary hyperbole. It is cited as grammatical evidence of non-governing mā, not as a moral or legal assertion.