Explanation of the saying of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): The Lamentation.
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The Shaykh : The lamentation is, in language: supplication. The lamentation in language is supplication, but in technical terminology it is: the call to express grief over a thing or to express pain from it, expressing grief over it or expressing pain from it. This lamentation is calling out to a thing, "Hey," expressing pain from it?
The student: Or expressing grief over it.
The Shaykh : Or expressing grief over it, and it has passed us in jurisprudence that the lamentation is enumerating the virtues?
The student: Of the deceased.
The Shaykh : Of the deceased, but in grammar it is not this, because if you said in jurisprudence: "This is so-and-so who does such-and-such, and does such-and-such, and does such-and-such," it is called a lamentation, but in the technical terminology of grammar it is not called a lamentation. So the lamentation in technical terminology is: the one called out to, over whom grief is expressed or from whom pain is expressed. And what is the letter specific to the lamentation in the chapter of the call?
The student: Waw.
The Shaykh : And?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : "Wa," as Ibn Malik said previously:
"And 'wa' for one who is lamented, or 'ya' if confusion is avoided".
The student: Or expressing grief over it.
The Shaykh : Or expressing grief over it, and it has passed us in jurisprudence that the lamentation is enumerating the virtues?
The student: Of the deceased.
The Shaykh : Of the deceased, but in grammar it is not this, because if you said in jurisprudence: "This is so-and-so who does such-and-such, and does such-and-such, and does such-and-such," it is called a lamentation, but in the technical terminology of grammar it is not called a lamentation. So the lamentation in technical terminology is: the one called out to, over whom grief is expressed or from whom pain is expressed. And what is the letter specific to the lamentation in the chapter of the call?
The student: Waw.
The Shaykh : And?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : "Wa," as Ibn Malik said previously:
"And 'wa' for one who is lamented, or 'ya' if confusion is avoided".