about the plural of few?
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The student: The plural of many!
The Shaykh : Huh?
The student: Is it from the plurals of many?
The Shaykh : Which of them?
The student: The author's statement in the third and fourth verses?
The Shaykh : Yes, absolutely. The plurals of few are only four; the rest are all plurals of many.
The student: The third verse?
The Shaykh : Which of them?
The student: The third verse: "For a verb... "?
The Shaykh :"Afa'l is a valid name for a verb, 'ayn, Afa'l"!
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Afa'l: from the chapter of few, yes. We read, we start the explanation. Allahu Akbar, Sami!
The student: The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Afa'l is a plural for every trilateral name on the pattern Fa'l".
The Shaykh : No, we deleted its end and added a nun, and we said: instead of Agbiyun, we said Agbin. Yes, that is correct.
The student: "And by 'name' the adjective is excluded, so it is not permissible, such as: Dakhim and Adakhim, and 'Abd and A'abd".
The Shaykh : And what is said for it? Athwab. It is not said: Athub. And yet, it is reported from the Arabs that they said: Athub. What is said for 'ayn?
The student: 'Ayun.
The Shaykh : Fa'ul, 'Ayun. And it is not said: A'ayan, or is it? And it is said: A'ayn, but it is anomalous. So the Arabs who said: A'ayn, left this condition. So the author says:
"For a Fa'l name, valid as 'ayn": And the word 'ayn is not valid in 'ayn. Okay, did you find A'ayn in the Qur'an?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, for example?[Al-Anbya 21:61], and if it is present in the Qur'an, then it should not be said to be anomalous, because the Qur'an judges and is not judged upon. And by this we know that establishing the rules for broken plurals, establishing them is not straight, because they consider that something like A'ayn is an anomalous plural, while it is found in the Qur'an. So how can it be anomalous?! Yes, that is correct.
The student: This is grammar, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : No, absolutely. We say: This is common. I lean toward the view that broken plurals do not have consistent patterns, and that all their patterns are majority-based. Yes, that is correct.
The student: "And Afa'l is also a plural for every feminine quadrilateral name".
The Shaykh : It has no consistent fixed pattern, there is only...
The Shaykh : Huh?
The student: Is it from the plurals of many?
The Shaykh : Which of them?
The student: The author's statement in the third and fourth verses?
The Shaykh : Yes, absolutely. The plurals of few are only four; the rest are all plurals of many.
The student: The third verse?
The Shaykh : Which of them?
The student: The third verse: "For a verb... "?
The Shaykh :"Afa'l is a valid name for a verb, 'ayn, Afa'l"!
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Afa'l: from the chapter of few, yes. We read, we start the explanation. Allahu Akbar, Sami!
The student: The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Afa'l is a plural for every trilateral name on the pattern Fa'l".
The Shaykh : No, we deleted its end and added a nun, and we said: instead of Agbiyun, we said Agbin. Yes, that is correct.
The student: "And by 'name' the adjective is excluded, so it is not permissible, such as: Dakhim and Adakhim, and 'Abd and A'abd".
The Shaykh : And what is said for it? Athwab. It is not said: Athub. And yet, it is reported from the Arabs that they said: Athub. What is said for 'ayn?
The student: 'Ayun.
The Shaykh : Fa'ul, 'Ayun. And it is not said: A'ayan, or is it? And it is said: A'ayn, but it is anomalous. So the Arabs who said: A'ayn, left this condition. So the author says:
"For a Fa'l name, valid as 'ayn": And the word 'ayn is not valid in 'ayn. Okay, did you find A'ayn in the Qur'an?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, for example?
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قالوا فأتوا به على أعين الناسThe student: This is grammar, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : No, absolutely. We say: This is common. I lean toward the view that broken plurals do not have consistent patterns, and that all their patterns are majority-based. Yes, that is correct.
The student: "And Afa'l is also a plural for every feminine quadrilateral name".
The Shaykh : It has no consistent fixed pattern, there is only...