Bayān al-Ibdāl: Verbs, Nouns, Particles and Sentence-Level Meaning
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- What is the basic purpose of ibdāl in this discussion?
- Why does yadhkuru imply criticism in the phrase about their gods?
- Why is protection a relevant sense in wa-lā hum minnā yuṣḥabūn?
- Why can thaqulat be clarified through hiddenness in the verse about the Hour?
- What does fa-in ṭibna ... nafsan chiefly require?
- What does khāḍiʿīn suggest when predicated of aʿnāq (necks)?
- How is the masculine plural appropriate for Mary in al-qānitīn?
- What is conveyed by the negated plural nāṣirīn?
- Why does al-insān not refer to just one person in al-ʿAṣr?
- What is the main force of the plural al-mursalīn in Noah’s story?
- What explains the first-person plural in innā fataḥnā laka?
- How should the two uses of al-nās in Āl ʿImrān 3:173 be read?
- What best captures the image in libās al-jūʿi wa-al-khawf?
- What does coloring represent in ṣibghat Allāh?
- What principle governs the interpretation of prepositional ibdāl?
- What is the limit of explaining lil-jabal through ʿalā al-jabal?
- What must be considered in fī judhūʿ al-nakhl?
- Why explain ilā amwālikum through maʿa amwālikum?
- What more is needed to establish inclusion of elbows in wuḍūʾ?
- Why is bihā explained through minhā in the drinking verse?
- What interpretation is possible for illā in the passage on the messengers?
- What practical conclusion follows from fa-ikhwānukum about orphans?
- What caution applies to the brothers’ statement “If he stole…”?
- What is the argumentative force of the response about Gabriel?
- What principle applies to all four kinds of ibdāl?
- The critical sense of yadhkuru here proves that every Qur’anic occurrence of dhikr means abuse.
- The singular al-insān can denote the human species in al-ʿAṣr.
- Libās in “the garment of hunger” refers only to literal clothing and has no figurative force.
- Explaining fī judhūʿ al-nakhl through “upon” does not change the original preposition fī.
- Because the Qur’an reports “If he stole, his brother stole before,” the allegation itself is necessarily true.