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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Book of Prayer-12

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The Shaykh :"And from Jabir ibn Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The people who lift their eyes towards the sky in Prayer should avoid it or they would lose their eyesight. لينتهين أقوام يرفعون أبصارهم إلى السماء في الصلاة أو لا ترجع إليهم
Sahih Muslim 428
. Muslim narrated it."

His statement:
Let certain people stop لينتهينّ أقوام
There is a grammatical issue in this sentence regarding the inflection of the verb, because the verb is currently in the open state (mudaf 'ilayhi) and we have not seen a case marker that would put it in the accusative case. Salih...
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Why? Because it is a present-tense verb to which the direct emphatic nun has been attached. So, when is the present-tense verb built (uninflected)?
The student: ...

The Shaykh : What?
The student: When it is attached to the feminine plural nun.

The Shaykh : So, the present-tense verb is built (uninflected) in two cases: when the emphatic nun is attached to it, or when the feminine plural nun is attached to it.
The people who lift their eyes towards the sky in Prayer أقوام يرفعون أبصارهم إلى السّماء في الصلاة
Sahih Muslim 428
meaning, let them stop doing this.
or they would lose their eyesight أو لا ترجع إليهم
Sahih Muslim 428
And this is like His saying in this meaning:
or else their eyes will be snatched away أو لتخطفنّ أبصارهم
The sentence in His saying:
Let them stop لينتهينّ
is a sentence emphasized by three emphatic markers: the oath, the lam, and the nun. The oath, the lam, and the implied meaning is "By Allah, let them stop," meaning let them abandon it.
Source alathar.net

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