Quran glossary · draft

مَا لِـ

with

Bound after interrogative مَا, the preposition relates the questioned condition to the following participant.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Lemmas: ل

Forms: لِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

4:78

أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا۟ يُدْرِككُّمُ ٱلْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِى بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا۟ هَٰذِهِۦ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا۟ هَٰذِهِۦ مِنْ عِندِكَ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِّنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ فَمَالِ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ ٱلْقَوْمِ لَا يَكَادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ حَدِيثًا

70:36

فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 4,380 family occurrences were reviewed across 44 bounded pages. The 3,981 protected accepted preposition, emphatic, and distal-marker records remain untouched. The 399 frozen targets comprise 319 purpose prefixes, 78 imperative prefixes, and two suffix-tagged prepositions in interrogative مَا لِ expressions; no compacted candidates or recitation readings occur. Purpose and directive uses grammaticalize the same endpoint orientation, while the two bound tokens retain the ordinary relational preposition. No unresolved Quran-internal contradiction remains.