for me to strike you," is that it is inconceivable for me to strike you due to your immense value to me. This is permissible because the comparative "min" is related to the comparative "afʿal" in a sense close to this meaning. Do you not see that when you say: "Zayd is better than ʿAmr," it means: Zayd surpasses ʿAmr in rank, so "min" in our context is like the comparative, except in the sense of preference. He said: and there is no further excellence in beauty.

"Sawāʾ" is a noun meaning equality, and it is described as sources are described. Among this is His saying, the Exalted: "to a word that is equitable between us and you" (Sūrah Āl ʿImrān, verse 64). Here it is a predicate, and the verb after it, meaning (whether it was such), is in the interpretation of the infinitive as a subject. As al-Zamakhsharī explicitly stated in His saying, the Exalted: "It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them" (Sūrah al-Baqarah, verse 6). The estimation: its being such and its being such are equal.