about whether a verb can be transitive and intransitive at the same time?
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The questioner : Shaykh so-and-so did not come to this matter with an estimate.
The Shaykh : What is the estimate?
The questioner : I mean, the speech of the common people...
The Shaykh : Do you mean it has an object?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It is possible for this, and it is possible for that. It can mean "Zayd did not come," in which case it is intransitive. Some verbs, we said, can be intransitive and transitive, and it is one verb. "Niqas" is intransitive and transitive. Allah the Exalted said:[At-Tawbah 9:4] This is intransitive.
The questioner : Transitive.
The Shaykh : This is transitive, and you say: "The faith decreased." Ah, this is intransitive. Yes.
The questioner : And "Zad."
The Shaykh : And "Zad" is like it. The man's faith increased. Yes.
The Shaykh : What is the estimate?
The questioner : I mean, the speech of the common people...
The Shaykh : Do you mean it has an object?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It is possible for this, and it is possible for that. It can mean "Zayd did not come," in which case it is intransitive. Some verbs, we said, can be intransitive and transitive, and it is one verb. "Niqas" is intransitive and transitive. Allah the Exalted said:
and then they have not been deficient toward you in anything
ثم لم ينقصوكم شيئاThe questioner : Transitive.
The Shaykh : This is transitive, and you say: "The faith decreased." Ah, this is intransitive. Yes.
The questioner : And "Zad."
The Shaykh : And "Zad" is like it.