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Explanation of the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "And of the emphatic, the verbal comes *** repeated, like your saying: proceed, proceed"

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The Shaykh :"And of the emphatic, the verbal comes *** repeated, like your saying: proceed, proceed".
Yes, his statement: "And of the emphatic, the verbal": let us look at its grammatical parsing. "Ma" is a relative pronoun serving as the subject, "min al-tawkid" is a preposition and its object, specifying "ma," and "lafdhi" is the predicate of a deleted subject, the implied meaning being: it is verbal. "Yaji" is the clause serving as the predicate of the subject, the predicate of "ma." This is not a violation of the rule that we do not parse, but rather we parse the thing in whose parsing there is difficulty. That is, what is verbal among the emphatic, what is verbal among the emphatic, what does it become?
It comes repeated. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) has made us understand from this that emphasis is of two types, even though he did not mention the division here, at the beginning of the discourse. Emphasis is of two types: semantic emphasis and verbal emphasis.
So semantic emphasis is what is done with the preceding words, which are: al-nafs, al-'ayn, kull, wa-ajma', wa-ajma'in, wa-jum', wa-jama', wa-'ammah, kulla, and kullata. These are the preceding words; they call this semantic emphasis.
And verbal emphasis is what comes repeated, either by the word or by the sentence. So the example mentioned by Ibn Malik: "proceed, proceed": the address is to a female, proceed, proceed. Is this a repeated sentence or a verb? Hmm?
The student: A sentence.

The Shaykh : It is a verbal sentence. "Pray two units, my brother." It may also be by the word. It may be by the word, like: the man stood, the man stood. This will also come in the author's words. Now, his statement:
"And of the emphatic, the verbal comes *** repeated":
His statement: "repeated": whether it was repeated by the word or repeated by the meaning with a slight difference in the word. So His saying, the Exalted:
So allow time for the disbelievers. Leave them awhile. فمهِّل الكافرين أمهلهم رويدا
[At-Tariq 86:17]
, the second "give them time" is an emphasis of the first "give them time," even though the verb differs somewhat. Or not?
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : And likewise, if I said: stop, no, if I said: stop, rise, I am addressing a person who is sitting. Stop, rise. What happens? It is verbal emphasis.
The student: Semantic.

The Shaykh : No, it is verbal, because we repeated the word with its meaning: "rise" means "stop." Semantic emphasis has specific words, which are: kull, al-nafs, al-'ayn, and the like. Now, so: what is repeated by a synonymous word, or by a word that differs somewhat, or by a matching word, right? What is repeated by a matching word, like what?
The student: Proceed.

The Shaykh : Proceed, proceed. By what word did we say?
The student: Synonym.

The Shaykh : Synonym. "Rise" and "stop," "sit" and "be seated." This is a synonym. By a word that differs somewhat, like His saying, the Exalted:
So allow time for the disbelievers. Leave them awhile. ومهل الكافرين أمهلهم رويدا
[At-Tariq 86:17]
.
The student: The example of sitting, sitting from sleep and sitting from standing!

The Shaykh : We want to say that "qada" means "jalsa" exactly. But if there is, for example, someone who wants to understand the opposite of the first meaning!
The student: Some said: "qada" does not mean "jalsa."

The Shaykh : What is it?
The student: "Qada" does not mean "jalsa," so he sat from standing, and sat from sleep.

The Shaykh : Yes, no, no, it is not correct. You use this and that. Yes, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
And if he prays وإذا صلى
And what comes after?
The student:
pray sitting, all of you. صلوا جلوسا أجمعين
.

The Shaykh : Sitting, it is not sitting.
The student: No, sit down.
Another student: There is a phrase, O Shaykh:
When he prays sitting, pray sitting. إذا صلى قاعدا فصلوا قعودا
Sunan Abi Dawud 607Sahih (Al-Albani)
.

The Shaykh : Leave it:
and if he prays sitting down then pray sitting down. إذا صلى قاعدا فصلوا قعودا أجمعين
Sunan Ibn Majah 1238Sahih (Darussalam)
.
The student: But sitting is not sitting!

The Shaykh : Yes, no, it is not correct. This distinction is not correct. Now, yes.
The student: ... The hadith of al-Fadl.

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: Sitting is not sitting.
Source alathar.net

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