Explanation of the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "And it may be said sa'ida and sa'idu *** and the verb for the apparent after a subject."
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The Shaykh : The author said:
"And it may be said sa'ida and sa'idu *** and the verb for the apparent after a subject"
It may be said, who says it?
The student: The Arabs.
The Shaykh : The Arabs, the Arabs judge and are not judged, meaning: some Arabs may say: sa'ida al-rijalān (the two men were happy) and sa'idu al-qawm (the people were happy), "and the verb for the apparent after a subject" meaning: after this, a subject is attached to the doer, so it is said: sa'ida al-rijalān, sa'idu al-muslimūn, and the standard language?
The student: Sa'id.
The Shaykh : Sa'id al-rijalān, sa'id al-muslimūn, and the author (may Allah have mercy on him) benefited us with his saying: "And it may be said" that it is a weak language, because "may" indicates?
The student: Diminution.
The Shaykh : Diminution, and this language is called the language of "the fleas ate me". This is a man who was troubled by fleas, they climbed on his body and bit him and hurt him, so he kept saying: "the fleas ate me". So it is a language, and this language makes the waw a marker of plural only, having no place in grammar, so you say regarding "the fleas ate me": past verb, and the waw: marker of plural, and the nun for protection, and the ya: object, and al-barāghīth (the fleas): subject raised with a visible dammah on its end, is that right? If he said: "the fleas ate you" (aklūk), what is "the fleas ate me" (aklūnī)?
The student: A language.
The Shaykh : The same language?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, the standard language in this construction is to say?
The student: Aklani.
The Shaykh : Aklani al-barāghīth (the fleas ate me) and akalak al-barāghīth (the fleas ate you), and you do not use the marker of plural, you do not use the marker of plural, this is the standard language. Okay, we cited a verse from the Book of Allah, which is His saying, the Exalted: And we answered regarding it that "many" is in place of "some" of "all," because His saying, the Exalted includes the whole, so if He said He brought out the part, and that is the case, and it is not befitting to interpret the Noble Qur'an with this little dialect, because it is only interpreted with which language?
The student: The standard language.
The Shaykh : The standard language, because it is in a clear Arabic tongue.
"And it may be said sa'ida and sa'idu *** and the verb for the apparent after a subject"
Okay, if I corrected a student's answer paper where he wrote: "The Muslims said such and such, and the disbelievers said such and such," do I consider this an error or correct?
The student: An error.
The Shaykh : It is an error. He argued with us, saying: "This is the language of some Arabs, and I am from those some." I say to him: "You are from those some, so you are excused by your ijtihad, but I am from the other some, so I must correct according to what I believe, and it is not permissible for me to be held to what I do not believe." So, is it crossed out or not?
The student: It is crossed out.
The Shaykh : It is crossed out. And if we followed dispensations every time someone made a mistake and said "this is a language," yes, people would become confused. Just as one says: Allahu Akbar and one says: Allah wa Kabir, a language. Ameen, do we say Ameen, a language? Everything is a language. And we do not accept from everyone now that he says: "I am on such and such a language," why? Because he is not on a language now, even that specific language, he is not on it. And if he loses it, we return to what?
The student: To the original.
The Shaykh : To the original mother, the standard language of the Arabs with which the Qur'an was revealed. Okay.
"And it may be said sa'ida and sa'idu *** and the verb for the apparent after a subject"
It may be said, who says it?
The student: The Arabs.
The Shaykh : The Arabs, the Arabs judge and are not judged, meaning: some Arabs may say: sa'ida al-rijalān (the two men were happy) and sa'idu al-qawm (the people were happy), "and the verb for the apparent after a subject" meaning: after this, a subject is attached to the doer, so it is said: sa'ida al-rijalān, sa'idu al-muslimūn, and the standard language?
The student: Sa'id.
The Shaykh : Sa'id al-rijalān, sa'id al-muslimūn, and the author (may Allah have mercy on him) benefited us with his saying: "And it may be said" that it is a weak language, because "may" indicates?
The student: Diminution.
The Shaykh : Diminution, and this language is called the language of "the fleas ate me". This is a man who was troubled by fleas, they climbed on his body and bit him and hurt him, so he kept saying: "the fleas ate me". So it is a language, and this language makes the waw a marker of plural only, having no place in grammar, so you say regarding "the fleas ate me": past verb, and the waw: marker of plural, and the nun for protection, and the ya: object, and al-barāghīth (the fleas): subject raised with a visible dammah on its end, is that right? If he said: "the fleas ate you" (aklūk), what is "the fleas ate me" (aklūnī)?
The student: A language.
The Shaykh : The same language?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, the standard language in this construction is to say?
The student: Aklani.
The Shaykh : Aklani al-barāghīth (the fleas ate me) and akalak al-barāghīth (the fleas ate you), and you do not use the marker of plural, you do not use the marker of plural, this is the standard language. Okay, we cited a verse from the Book of Allah, which is His saying, the Exalted:
Then they were blind and deaf, many of them
ثم عموا وصمّوا كثير منهمThey were blind and deaf
عموا وصمّواMany of them
كثير منهمThe student: The standard language.
The Shaykh : The standard language, because it is in a clear Arabic tongue.
"And it may be said sa'ida and sa'idu *** and the verb for the apparent after a subject"
Okay, if I corrected a student's answer paper where he wrote: "The Muslims said such and such, and the disbelievers said such and such," do I consider this an error or correct?
The student: An error.
The Shaykh : It is an error. He argued with us, saying: "This is the language of some Arabs, and I am from those some." I say to him: "You are from those some, so you are excused by your ijtihad, but I am from the other some, so I must correct according to what I believe, and it is not permissible for me to be held to what I do not believe." So, is it crossed out or not?
The student: It is crossed out.
The Shaykh : It is crossed out. And if we followed dispensations every time someone made a mistake and said "this is a language," yes, people would become confused. Just as one says: Allahu Akbar and one says: Allah wa Kabir, a language. Ameen, do we say Ameen, a language? Everything is a language. And we do not accept from everyone now that he says: "I am on such and such a language," why? Because he is not on a language now, even that specific language, he is not on it. And if he loses it, we return to what?
The student: To the original.
The Shaykh : To the original mother, the standard language of the Arabs with which the Qur'an was revealed. Okay.