What is the comprehensive and thorough grammatical analysis (I'rab) of the Almighty’s saying: {Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has preferred some of them over others and by [right of] what they spend}, with elaboration on the grammatical analysis of the words (بما) and (وبما)?
The parsing summary of the verse: "Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has preferred some of them over others and by [right of] what they spend from their wealth" is as follows:
- "الرجال" (Men): Subject (Mubtada'). - "قوامون" (in charge): Its predicate (khabar), and "على النساء" (of women) relates to it. - "بما فضل" (by what Allah has preferred): Relates to "قوامون" (in charge), and the "ba'" (ب) is for causation (sababiyyah), while "ma" (ما) is a مصدرية (masdariyyah, indicating an infinitive) or موصولية (mawsuliyyah, a relative pronoun). - "وبما أنفقوا من أموالهم" (and by what they spend from their wealth): Conjoined to the preceding phrase, and "ma" (ما) can mean "that which" (الذي).
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