Explanation of the saying of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "And raise or lower if you cut off a hidden one *** a subject or a nasser, they will not appear."
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The Shaykh :"And raise or lower":
We say: "or lower," we do not say "or lower," "and cut off or lower", so how do we move the waw?
The student: With a kasrah.
The Shaykh : With a kasrah, due to the meeting of two static letters, because the hamza of "lower" is a hamza?
The student: Connected.
The Shaykh : Connected, "and raise or lower if you cut off a hidden one":
"Hidden one": a state (hal), yes, from the actor of "raise" or "lower."
And his saying: "if you cut off": this is an interjected conditional clause, meaning "raise or lower a hidden one": "a subject or a nasser, they will not appear":
This is a subject or a nasser by distribution, and it is a folding and unfolding here?
The student: Ordered.
The Shaykh : Ordered, raise a hidden subject, lower a hidden nasser, yes, "they will not appear": neither the subject nor the nasser, it is obligatory that they not appear, because if they appear, the description becomes a clause. An example of this is that you say: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," and Zayd is specified by his name, there is no other Zayd, is it permissible to cut off in "the noble" and in "the brave"?
The student: It is permissible.
The Shaykh : It is permissible, and it is permissible to cut off in one of them and follow in the second, and it is permissible to follow in all of them, so you say: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," this is the original: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," correct?
The student: No.
Another student: Except, correct, lowering two operators.
The Shaykh : "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?!
The student: It is correct.
The Shaykh : It is correct, "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is correct, "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is correct, like this?! So it is permissible to decline both by following, and to raise both by assuming a subject, and to lower both by assuming a verb, and to raise the first and lower the second, and to lower the first and raise the second.
The student: Everything is permissible.
The Shaykh : And decline the first, yes, decline the first and raise the second, or lower it or decline it.
The student: It does not err!
The Shaykh : It does not err, yes, so:
"and raise or lower if you cut off":
Meaning, if the cutting off occurs, how do we parse it? We say: either you assume a subject, or you assume a verb. We now want to assume a verb and a subject: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," "I passed" is a verb and an actor, and the ba is a preposition, and "Zayd" is a noun declined by the ba, "the noble" is the predicate of a deleted subject, and the estimation is: "he is the noble," okay, is the clause now a description or a state?
The student: It becomes a state.
The Shaykh : Here?! Look, the matter has changed, the clause now is in the position of accusative as a state, okay, "the brave," "the brave" is the object of a deleted verb, the estimation is: "I mean the brave," and the clause is also in the position of accusative as a state, or the clause here: "I mean" is explanatory and has no position in parsing, and the result is that if you cut off, you have the accusative by assuming a verb, and you have the nominative by assuming a subject, and in that case, if the described is definite, the clause after it is a state, and if it is indefinite, the first clause after it is a description, and the second clause is permissible to be a description, and permissible to be a state, or not?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine, okay.
We say: "or lower," we do not say "or lower," "and cut off or lower", so how do we move the waw?
The student: With a kasrah.
The Shaykh : With a kasrah, due to the meeting of two static letters, because the hamza of "lower" is a hamza?
The student: Connected.
The Shaykh : Connected, "and raise or lower if you cut off a hidden one":
"Hidden one": a state (hal), yes, from the actor of "raise" or "lower."
And his saying: "if you cut off": this is an interjected conditional clause, meaning "raise or lower a hidden one": "a subject or a nasser, they will not appear":
This is a subject or a nasser by distribution, and it is a folding and unfolding here?
The student: Ordered.
The Shaykh : Ordered, raise a hidden subject, lower a hidden nasser, yes, "they will not appear": neither the subject nor the nasser, it is obligatory that they not appear, because if they appear, the description becomes a clause. An example of this is that you say: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," and Zayd is specified by his name, there is no other Zayd, is it permissible to cut off in "the noble" and in "the brave"?
The student: It is permissible.
The Shaykh : It is permissible, and it is permissible to cut off in one of them and follow in the second, and it is permissible to follow in all of them, so you say: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," this is the original: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," correct?
The student: No.
Another student: Except, correct, lowering two operators.
The Shaykh : "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?!
The student: It is correct.
The Shaykh : It is correct, "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is correct, "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave"?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is correct, like this?! So it is permissible to decline both by following, and to raise both by assuming a subject, and to lower both by assuming a verb, and to raise the first and lower the second, and to lower the first and raise the second.
The student: Everything is permissible.
The Shaykh : And decline the first, yes, decline the first and raise the second, or lower it or decline it.
The student: It does not err!
The Shaykh : It does not err, yes, so:
"and raise or lower if you cut off":
Meaning, if the cutting off occurs, how do we parse it? We say: either you assume a subject, or you assume a verb. We now want to assume a verb and a subject: "I passed by Zayd the noble the brave," "I passed" is a verb and an actor, and the ba is a preposition, and "Zayd" is a noun declined by the ba, "the noble" is the predicate of a deleted subject, and the estimation is: "he is the noble," okay, is the clause now a description or a state?
The student: It becomes a state.
The Shaykh : Here?! Look, the matter has changed, the clause now is in the position of accusative as a state, okay, "the brave," "the brave" is the object of a deleted verb, the estimation is: "I mean the brave," and the clause is also in the position of accusative as a state, or the clause here: "I mean" is explanatory and has no position in parsing, and the result is that if you cut off, you have the accusative by assuming a verb, and you have the nominative by assuming a subject, and in that case, if the described is definite, the clause after it is a state, and if it is indefinite, the first clause after it is a description, and the second clause is permissible to be a description, and permissible to be a state, or not?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Fine, okay.