Grammar term · I'rab · i'rab
فِي مَحَلّ جَزْم
fi mahall jazm
In place of jazm
I'rab · i'rabLocal position (mahall)core term1,209+ in the Qur'an
In one line
“In the place of jazm” — chiefly the answer-sentence of a jazm condition when it opens with فَ.
Classical definition
تَكُونُ الجُمْلَةُ فِي مَحَلِّ جَزْمٍ إِذَا وَقَعَتْ جَوَابًا لِشَرْطٍ جَازِمٍ مَقْرُونًا بِالفَاءِ.
“A sentence is “in the place of jazm” when it stands as the answer to a jazm-condition, joined by fa.”
(بتصرف من ابن هشام)
Understand it
Only verbs take jazm in form, so this mahall belongs mostly to sentences: when the answer of إِنْ or مَنْ is a full sentence introduced by فَ, that sentence as a whole occupies the jazm slot. مَن يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ (al-A'raf 7:186) — everything after فَ is fi mahall jazm.
How to spot it
Recognition test
A conditional sentence whose answer opens with فَ — that answer-sentence is fi mahall jazm.
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