Reading the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "… In the case of indefinite nouns, *laysa* is made to govern the accusative, and *la* follows it, and this is the operation of *la*, and the operation of *la* is not in any case other than when it is operating, and the deletion of the nominative is widespread, while the opposite is rare. The verbs of approximation are like *kana*, *kadda*, and *asa*, but it is rare for the news of these two to be other than a present-tense verb, and its being without *an* after *asa* is negligible, and the matter with *kadda* is the opposite."
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The reader: Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his *Alfiyyah*:
"In the case of indefinite nouns, *laysa* is made to govern the accusative, and *la* follows it, and this is the operation of *la*
And the operation of *la* is not in any case other than when it is operating, and the deletion of the nominative is widespread, while the opposite is rare
The verbs of approximation
Are like *kana*, *kadda*, and *asa*, but it is rare for the news of these two to be other than a present-tense verb
And its being without *an* after *asa* is negligible, and the matter with *kadda* is the opposite"
The Shaykh : Bismillah, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
"In the case of indefinite nouns, *laysa* is made to govern the accusative, and *la* follows it, and this is the operation of *la*
And the operation of *la* is not in any case other than when it is operating, and the deletion of the nominative is widespread, while the opposite is rare
The verbs of approximation
Are like *kana*, *kadda*, and *asa*, but it is rare for the news of these two to be other than a present-tense verb
And its being without *an* after *asa* is negligible, and the matter with *kadda* is the opposite"
The Shaykh : Bismillah, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.