Explanation of the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "It brings the farthest near with concise wording *** and expands the giving with a fulfilled promise"
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The Shaykh : He said:
"It brings the farthest near with concise wording *** and expands the giving with a concise promise"
Yes, "It brings the farthest near with concise wording". The farthest requires a long distance, but it brings it near with short wording, because the concise and short form gathers for you the scattered, distant aspects of grammar in a short phrase—may Allah have mercy on you—in a short phrase it brings it near.
"And expands the giving" means it offers a generous giving, because *basit* means expansion. Allah the Exalted said:[Ar-Ra'd 13:26] meaning: He restricts. So it expands the giving, meaning it broadens the generosity. "With a fulfilled promise" means: It promises the giving and then fulfills it without delay. So it combines three qualities, or rather four qualities:
First: Bringing the farthest near, meaning the distant.
Second: That its wording is concise, not so much that a person gets bored of it, reading and reading and gaining only a little benefit.
Third: That it expands the giving, meaning it broadens it, and *bazl* means giving, so it broadens the giving. And the fourth: That it fulfills what it promised, it fulfills what it promised. It is not hidden in this verse what it contains of metaphor, where it depicted this *alfiyyah* as a living being with perception, giving, expansion, and promise. Otherwise, the *alfiyyah* is just composed words, but this is what the scholars of rhetoric call what? Metaphor. That you borrow the attribute of a living being with sensation and will for an inanimate object with no sensation and no will. I did not...
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Ah.
The student: What...
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : This is from the category of conceptualization, uh, yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Tomorrow after the night prayer, yes.
Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"And I seek help from Allah in an *alfiyyah* *** whose purposes of grammar are contained therein
It brings the farthest near with concise wording *** and expands the giving with a fulfilled promise".
And the discussion of this has already been mentioned.
"It brings the farthest near with concise wording *** and expands the giving with a concise promise"
Yes, "It brings the farthest near with concise wording". The farthest requires a long distance, but it brings it near with short wording, because the concise and short form gathers for you the scattered, distant aspects of grammar in a short phrase—may Allah have mercy on you—in a short phrase it brings it near.
"And expands the giving" means it offers a generous giving, because *basit* means expansion. Allah the Exalted said:
Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it].
اللَّهُ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَقْدِرُFirst: Bringing the farthest near, meaning the distant.
Second: That its wording is concise, not so much that a person gets bored of it, reading and reading and gaining only a little benefit.
Third: That it expands the giving, meaning it broadens it, and *bazl* means giving, so it broadens the giving. And the fourth: That it fulfills what it promised, it fulfills what it promised. It is not hidden in this verse what it contains of metaphor, where it depicted this *alfiyyah* as a living being with perception, giving, expansion, and promise. Otherwise, the *alfiyyah* is just composed words, but this is what the scholars of rhetoric call what? Metaphor. That you borrow the attribute of a living being with sensation and will for an inanimate object with no sensation and no will. I did not...
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Ah.
The student: What...
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : This is from the category of conceptualization, uh, yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Tomorrow after the night prayer, yes.
Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"And I seek help from Allah in an *alfiyyah* *** whose purposes of grammar are contained therein
It brings the farthest near with concise wording *** and expands the giving with a fulfilled promise".
And the discussion of this has already been mentioned.