Grammar term · I'rab · Mahall — position in i'rāb
In place of nasab
fi mahall nasab
فِي مَحَلّ نَصْب
I'rabMahall — position in i'rābcore term9,265+ in the Qur'an
In one line
“In the place of nasab” — a mabni word or a sentence filling a nasab slot.
Classical definition
تَكُونُ الكَلِمَةُ المَبْنِيَّةُ أَوِ الجُمْلَةُ فِي مَحَلِّ نَصْبٍ إِذَا وَقَعَتْ مَوْقِعَ المَنْصُوبِ، كَجُمْلَةِ مَقُولِ القَوْلِ.
“A mabni word or a sentence is “in the place of nasab” when it stands where a nasab word would stand — like the quoted-speech sentence after قَالَ.”
Understand it
Object slots welcome mabni words and whole sentences. In خَلَقَكُمْ the attached pronoun ـكُمْ is the object — fi mahall nasab, since a pronoun can show no fatha. And everything quoted after قَالَ fills the object slot as one block: the entire sentence is “what was said”.
How to spot it
Recognition test
Ask what the verb did to what; if the answer is a pronoun or a whole sentence, that filler is fi mahall nasab.
Related terms
فِي مَحَلّ جَرّ · fi mahall jarr
فِي مَحَلّ جَزْم · fi mahall jazm
فِي مَحَلّ رَفْع · fi mahall rafa
لَا مَحَلّ لَهُ مِنَ الْإِعْرَاب · la mahall lahu min al-i'rab
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