Explanation of the author's (may Allah have mercy on him) statement: " . . .
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The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) says "The chapter on the nominative cases of nouns" This is from the chapter of attributing a thing to its kind, meaning the nominative cases among nouns. They are seven. We say this based on the saying of Allah the Exalted, or the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), or what else?
The student: For tracking and induction.
The Shaykh : We do not say this or that. We say seven for the sake of tracking and induction, because the scholars of the Arabic language exerted great effort and went into the deserts and open spaces, and in every place, tracking the Bedouin from among the Arabs to learn a matter of the language from them. They tracked the nominative cases of nouns and found that they do not exceed seven things only.
"And they are the doer"
The second is "the object whose doer is not named", and it is called the substitute for the doer.
The third is "the subject"
The fourth is "its predicate"
The fifth is "the noun of 'kana' and its sisters"
The sixth is "the predicate of 'inna' and its sisters"
The seventh is "the dependent on the nominative, which is - that is, the seventh - four things: the adjective, the conjunction, the emphasis, and the substitute". We will repeat them, or you will repeat them tomorrow. Here tomorrow, because you will memorize them. You must memorize them. So, tomorrow, if Allah wills.
The student: For tracking and induction.
The Shaykh : We do not say this or that. We say seven for the sake of tracking and induction, because the scholars of the Arabic language exerted great effort and went into the deserts and open spaces, and in every place, tracking the Bedouin from among the Arabs to learn a matter of the language from them. They tracked the nominative cases of nouns and found that they do not exceed seven things only.
"And they are the doer"
The second is "the object whose doer is not named", and it is called the substitute for the doer.
The third is "the subject"
The fourth is "its predicate"
The fifth is "the noun of 'kana' and its sisters"
The sixth is "the predicate of 'inna' and its sisters"
The seventh is "the dependent on the nominative, which is - that is, the seventh - four things: the adjective, the conjunction, the emphasis, and the substitute". We will repeat them, or you will repeat them tomorrow. Here tomorrow, because you will memorize them. You must memorize them. So, tomorrow, if Allah wills.