The inquiring seeker, and therefore he said: "O friend, do you see lightning, I show you its flash?" He meant, "Do you see lightning?" The interrogative 'a' is not good to omit without a reason indicating its omission. And what substitutes for it is 'am', and it has been said that the 'alif' is from the 'alif' of interrogation, and that is a mistake. And the best in this verse is to assume necessity, as if he meant: "You see lightning in any case." And his saying "clapping of hands" means the movement of hands. And when it indicates or warns with it, it is said to clap. Sa'idah said: "O Bashir, clap your hands." He means to lightly clap with the palm. The hands, and the estimation of the word "O friend" is "O friend, do you see...". And movement, and it is possible that the question of people is like this. And it is said that "mukallal" is that part of which is on the model, and it was narrated from 'Ayyid that it means "you are". The clouds are said to be "mukallal" when they are illuminated by lightning. And "sahib" is a vocative, and the vocative is not used for an indefinite noun unless it has the feminine 'ta', as in his saying: "O Khariyah..." And Abu al-Abbas said: "This is so, and it is not permissible to use the vocative for a noun that has a 'ya' like this, if it is..." and he said: "O Khariyah, he meant O daughter of Khariyah, so it is definite, and therefore he said: 'O friend', and he meant 'O companion'." It does not harm "its beauty and the lamps of a monk." "The oil is the light of lightning, and its parallel from the safe is the flame, and it is written with 'alif' because it is from (rar Those with 'waw' in their verb, 'sana' becomes 'yasnu', and 'salit' is oil, and it is, according to the people of 'Anz the solution, and it is the fat of the sheep. And 'al-zayyal' is the wick, and the 'fitila' is the wick. And it was narrated "masabih" with nominative and accusative. The nominative is by way of being an attribute of 'sana', or of the position of the hands in "clapping of hands", because its position is nominative, as the source is added to the doer and the object.