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What is the grammatical analysis (إعراب) of the Quranic verse (لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله), and what are its five possible grammatical interpretations? Furthermore, is it true that everything permissible for grammatical analysis as a badal (substitute) is also permissible for grammatical analysis as an atf bayan (explicative apposition), except in two specific cases? And what are these two cases?

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This website aims to answer questions from those seeking fatwas, and is not concerned with competition questions. We apologize for not answering this question as it appears to be a competition question. The questioner can refer to the commentaries on Ibn Malik's Alfiya in the chapter on "La" Nafiyat al-Jins (the negation of genus) and the chapter on "Atf al-Bayan" (explanatory apposition).

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