Return to the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: << إذ تلقونه بألسنتكم . . . . . . . . . . . . >> .
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And it is His saying: "When you receive it with your tongues in a pleasant manner." He said: "One of the two taa's was deleted from the verb; its original form is 'idh tatalqunahu bi-alsinatikum' (when you receive it with your tongues)". And it is not possible for us to say that it is a past tense verb. [Al-Layl 92:14] It can be said to be a past tense verb, but it is originally a present tense verb, tatalqunahu. But here, can we make it talqaa? Because if talqaa is a past tense verb, if it came in its bare form, it would be talqaytu al-hadith (I received the report). Talqunahu, can we make it a past tense verb here? And what is possible, Muhammad?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What is possible? Why?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, because idh is for specification.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, here the original past tense verb does not take the waw and the nun. It takes the waw, correct? Talqaw (you received). But it does not take the nun, because the nun is from the five present tense verbs. And here there is a nun, or not? Talqunahu. So here it is not permissible for it to be a past tense verb. So we are certain that one of the two taa's was deleted from it. Then the author said: "And idh is in the accusative case because of masakum or adhfatum". And what is masakum? It is for masakum (your touching). Idh talqunahu or adhfatum. Idh talqunahu. It is derived from the author's statement that idh here is a noun. And it has passed us that many grammarians make the explanatory idh a particle, not a noun, because the meaning is "for the sake of such and such." Allah the Exalted said, and we stopped at it.
So I have warned you of a Fire which is blazing.
فأنذرتكم نارا تلظىThe student: ...
The Shaykh : What is possible? Why?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, because idh is for specification.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, here the original past tense verb does not take the waw and the nun. It takes the waw, correct? Talqaw (you received). But it does not take the nun, because the nun is from the five present tense verbs. And here there is a nun, or not? Talqunahu. So here it is not permissible for it to be a past tense verb. So we are certain that one of the two taa's was deleted from it. Then the author said: "And idh is in the accusative case because of masakum or adhfatum". And what is masakum? It is for masakum (your touching). Idh talqunahu or adhfatum. Idh talqunahu. It is derived from the author's statement that idh here is a noun. And it has passed us that many grammarians make the explanatory idh a particle, not a noun, because the meaning is "for the sake of such and such." Allah the Exalted said, and we stopped at it.