What is the origin of the word "al-Safi"?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The student: Al-Safi!
The Shaykh : Huh?
The student: Al-Safi.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The student: How is it that it came from: al-Safaw?
The Shaykh : Yes, its origin is Fa'ul, Safawi, but the waw was changed to a ya because it is quiescent and the preceding letter is open, and then when it was changed to a ya, it is necessary to make the preceding letter kasrah; there is a morphological rule here, yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh : Huh?
The student: Al-Safi.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The student: How is it that it came from: al-Safaw?
The Shaykh : Yes, its origin is Fa'ul, Safawi, but the waw was changed to a ya because it is quiescent and the preceding letter is open, and then when it was changed to a ya, it is necessary to make the preceding letter kasrah; there is a morphological rule here, yes, that is correct.