
Four words hide a surprising amount of grammar. Why is الْحَمْدُ nominative, where is its predicate, what is رَبِّ doing, and why does الْعَالَمِينَ behave like a sound masculine plural?
The post Sentence Autopsy: The Invisible Predicate of Praise in Sura 1:2 first appeared on Arabic for Nerds and is written by Gerald Drißner.