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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته,
One of a the reasons why a noun can be in a state is that it is a تَابِع (grammatical follower of another word).
There are four kinds of grammatical followers (i.e. they come after a word and follow it in status):
Until next time, السلام عليكم
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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته,
We’re still talking about grammatical followers of a word that come after it and follow it in status. We’ve done النَّعْت (The adjective). Now we’re going to look at the عَطْف (conjunction), starting with some particles that are used to join between words in a sentence:
ِوَحُرُوْفُ العَطْفِ عَشْرَةٌ، وَهِيَ: الْوَاوُ، وَالْفاءُ، وَثُمَّ، وَأَوْ، وَأَمْ، وَإمّا، وَبَلْ، وَلا، وَلَكِنْ، وَحَتَّى فِيْ بَعْضِ المَواضِعِ
And the particles of conjunctions are 10. They are the letters و (waw) and ف (fa), ثُمَّ (thumma), أَوْ (aw), أَمْ (am), إمّا (immaa), بَلْ (bal), لا (laa), لَكِنْ (laakin), and حَتّى (hattaa) – in some situations
The word عَطْف (‘atf ) in the normal sense means “to incline to something”. If you say عَطَفَ فُلانٌ عَلى فُلانٍ (“Somebody had ‘atf for somebody”), it means that he inclined toward him and had affection for him.
In grammar, they’re two kinds of ‘atf : [Read more…] about العَطْف (Conjunctions)
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته,
When we talked about نَعْت (description) in النَّعْت (The adjective), we mentioned definite and indefinite nouns a lot because we were trying to show how the نَعْت (description) and the مَنْعُوْت (what you are describing) have to match in being definite or indefinite.
To keep it straight, all nouns are either definite or indefinite. First the definite nouns:
وَالْمَعْرِفَةُ خَمْسَةُ أشْياء: الِاسْمُ المُضْمَرُ نَحْوُ أَنَا وَأَنْتَ وَالاِسْمُ العَلَمُ نَحْوُ زَيْدٌ وَمَكَّةُ, وَالاسْمُ المُبْهَمُ نَحْوُ هّذا وَهَذِهِ وَهَؤُلاءِ وَالاِسْمُ الَّذِيْ فِيْهِ الأَلِفُ وَاللامُ نَحْوُ: الرَّجُلُ وَالْغُلامُ, وَما أُضِيْفَ إلى وَاحِدٍ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأرْبَعَةِ
… and the definite noun is [one of] five things: The pronoun, like أنا (“I”) and أنْتَ (“you”), the proper noun, like زَيْدٌ (Zayd) and مَكَّةُ (Makkah), the vague pronoun, like هَذا (“this”), هَذِهِ (“this [f.]”) and هَؤُلاءِ (“these”), the noun that has ال in it, like الرَجُلُ (“the man”) and الْغُلامُ (“the boy”), and whatever is mudhaaf to one of these four.
The definite noun is a word that is used for a specific entity or entities, and there are five kinds of definite nouns (with the explanation to follow):
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله,
When something’s as important as Arabic, you can bet that the discussions about the reasons to learn it and why it’s so important will abound as they have through the centuries right up until our time. I’m going to give my own take. It is edgy, it is opinionated, but don’t let that stop you from going through it. Keep in mind that when I say “Arabic”, I mean the pure Arabic that was present during final era of revelation, not what is known as “dialects” today.
This is something we really need to wrap our heads around to understand how important Arabic is. All the primary sources are in Arabic. All our rituals use them. The understanding of many Islamic concepts go back to what the words originally mean in Arabic. It is a symbol of Islam, so much, that for much of history, the Muslims were simply called “the Arabs”, because the world closely related Arabic and Islam together (i.e. that the Muslims are an Arabic-speaking nation).
Is it amazing that for centuries there were kings in Europe with fair skin and light-colored eyes who spoke Arabic? That is because these dynasties, while far in time and place from the birth of Islam, knew that Arabic was and will always be the “official language” of Islam. They used it for both religious duties and for governance. How far we’ve come from that standard!
In fact, it is because of Islam that pure Arabic has been preserved at such a high level. There is no Islam without Arabic, and there is no Arabic without Islam.
My point is not that it is wrong to learn about Islam in other languages, if you’re a beginner, but you will never have more than a beginner-level knowledge without Arabic. If you want to progress further, you will have to consult the works of the scholars, and that means learning the language of the scholars. The whole point of the Quran being in Arabic is so that you can grasp it. Just look:
Every one of us has to learn from the Quran and Sunnah to the level where we can perform our duties to our Lord and to each other properly, so whatever Arabic we need in order to learn that is also mandatory.
If someone captures your heart, you want to find out as much as you can about them. You find out where they live, who their friends are, what classes they’re taking, which way they take home, basically everything about this beautiful, fascinating person…. [Read more…] about Why should you learn Arabic?
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته,
Today we’re going to start looking at التَابِعُ لِلْمَرْفُوْعِ (the grammatical follower of a word that’s in raf’).
There are four kinds of grammatical followers (i.e. they come after a word and follow it in status).
This post is going to cover the نَعْت, and the rest will come in later sections إنْ شاء الله
النَعْتُ: تَابِعٌ لِلْمَنْعُوْتِ فِيْ رَفْعِهِ وَنَصْبِهِ وَخَفْضِهِ, وَتَعْرَيْفِهِ وَتَنْكِيْرِهِ, قَامَ زَيْدٌ الْعَاقِلُ, وَرَأَيْتُ زَيْدًا الْعَاقِلَ وَمَرَرْتُ بِزَيْدٍ الْعاقِلِ
The adjective is a follower of the described word in its raf’, nasb and khafdh (jarr) and in its being a definite and indefinite noun. [You would say]: قَامَ زَيْدٌ الْعَاقِلُ (“Zayd, the intelligent, stood”), رَأَيْتُ زَيْدًا الْعَاقِلَ (“I saw Zayd, the intelligent”), and مَرَرْتُ بِزَيْدٍ الْعاقِلِ (“I passed by Zayd, the intelligent”).
The word نَعْتُ (na’t) means “a description”, and the word it’s describing is called the مَنْعُوْت (the “described word”). We can say it’s like an adjective in English except that in Arabic, it will come after the word it’s describing, and not necessarily right after it. “A big house” would be “بَيْتٌ كَبِيْرٌ” (Which is بَيْتٌ – “house”, followed by كَبَيْرٌ – “big”).
Now, there are two kinds of na’t:
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته,
We’ve seen how a جُمْلُة اسْمِيَّة (nominal sentence) will have a subject called the مُبْتَدَأ (mubtada’) and some information about that subject called the خَبَر (khabar), along with the fact that they are both going to be in the state of رَفْع (raf’). These are the third and fourth of the 7 types of nouns in رَفع.
We’ll look at the the fifth and sixth of these seven together, because they both come under the heading of “cancellers of the mubtada’ and khabar” (which we’ll get to in just a moment):
كانَ and إنَّ are two of the influences that can come and cancel the original rule of a nominal sentence (that the mubtada’ and khabar are both in raf’) and replace it with something else, and that’s what we’re going to look at more closely now: [Read more…] about نَوَاسِخُ الْمُبْتَدَأِ وَالْخَبَرِ (Influences that cancel the mubtada’ and khabar)
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