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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Who says anything other than this, then what he has said is a kind of *fif'alan* (Reading from the commentary on the meaning of *fif'alan*)

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The Shaykh :"Who says anything other than this, then what he has said is a kind of" *fif'alan*
The student: *Fif'alan*

The Shaykh :" *Fif'alan* "
The student: *Fuf'alan* with a dammah on the fa

The Shaykh : Well, in any case, it appears that his intended meaning is a kind of nonsense, meaning something irrational. Look at the commentary.
The reader: "His statement: *Fif'alan* with a dammah on the fa and sukun on the 'ayn means a word in the pattern of *fuf'alan*, like *buhthan* (falsehood) and *butlan* (falsity), and the like. This is as in the statement of al-Mutanabbi in his elegy for the sister of Sayf al-Dawla ibn Hamdan, whose name was Khawlah: 'As if a *fa'alah* did not fill'"

The Shaykh : *Fa'alah*
The reader: "As if a *fa'alah* did not fill her processions *** Diyarbakir, and did not deceive, and did not fear"
This is because al-Mutanabbi did not explicitly state her name, out of reverence for her being a queen, but instead referred to her name by the word *fa'alah*. Thus, the word *fa'alah* follows the rule of its pattern, being indeclinable due to being a proper noun and feminine.

The Shaykh : Yes, that clarifies it. Who is this?
The reader: Abu 'Isa

The Shaykh : Yes, the important point is *fuf'alan*. And if *fif'alan* means a kind of *fif'alan*, i.e., a description in the pattern of *fuf'alan* like *buhthan*, this opens a door for us. If we wanted to complete, for example, if you want to ask about a person whose name you do not want the attendees to know, and his name is, for example, Ahmad, you say, "I did not see a *fa'il*." Is that appropriate? It is a good kenya (nickname). This is "I did not see a *muf'il*," meaning Muhammad, so that the attendees do not know his name. And this is good: to refer to a name by its linguistic pattern, so that the person addressed knows who is meant, while the listening attendee does not know who is meant. Yes.

The questioner : With a fathah or a dammah?

The Shaykh : With a dammah.
The student: *Fuf'alan*

The Shaykh : *Fuf'alan*
The student: ... *dharban* in the accusative case

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : *Dharban* in the accusative case

The Shaykh : No, what I mean is *fif'alan*. "Then what he has said is a kind of" *dharban*. Yes, *dharban* is required here.
The student: ...

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: We have it in the accusative case...

The Shaykh : Where...
The student: ...

The Shaykh : Yes, let it be a copy. This can be interpreted in two ways.
The student: ... and *fif'alan*...

The Shaykh : No, *buhthan* is better. *Buhthan* is better. Yes.
The student: ... the pattern

The Shaykh : No, *fuf'alan* and *fif'alan*.
The student: Second

The Shaykh : No, "It is the same, not the second, the first". We did not discuss the second.
The student: ...

The Shaykh : No, no, we are discussing the second. "Who says something" or
"Who says anything other than this, then what he has said is a kind of *fuf'alan*"
This is what we are discussing.
The student: No, because the one before it is *dhatan*

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: I mean in the pattern of *fif'alan*

The Shaykh : No, the discussion is about the rhyme, which is alif and nun.
Source alathar.net

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