Understanding the vocabulary of salah
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- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- THE WORD RAB
- THE WORD AALAMEEN
- THE WORDS ARAHMAAN ARAHEEM
| Nouns VS. Verbs
Nouns and Verbs in the Arabic language. The thing about Arabic, it has rich and powerful rhetorical functions. Everything has EFFECTS of words. There are special features to using different types of words Past tense, present tense, future tense ALL have far reaching implications!
Future tense implies it will reappear over and over again. Nouns- Are TIMELESS WORDS in Arabic Verbs- are limited by time. If I say Zaid ran (when did he do it? He did it in the PAST) it’s limiting his running to the past Zaid is running- this is present, did he run in past? We don’t know. Will he do it in future? We don’t know. If you said ZAID IS A RUNNER, this can apply to past, present, and future! Verbs are limited by time- nouns are not. Nouns are TIMELESS Verbs also have another limitation. If I say “RAN”, what’s your next logical question? WHO RAN? If I said SAT, you would ask WHO SAT? Verbs require a DOER, they need someone to execute the action, to fulfill the action. A verb can’t speak on its own! You have to say she ran, he ran, I have to tell you who did the action. But NOUNS DON’T REQUIRE A DOER!
It’s a noun so not limited by time or doer so TIMELESS PRAISE! There not even a DOER! It doesn’t say I PRAISE, Allah IS, WAS, and WILL CONTINUE to be worthy of praise whether someone is doing the act of praising or not! We can have definitions and translations but we need to actually understand the grammatical implications of each word. It doesn’t just mean All praise is to Allah! Its means so much more. ALHUMDULLILAH means at ALL TIMES ALLAH IS DESERVING OF PRAISE, WHETHER SOMEONE IS DOING IT OR NOT! Maghrib Break Allah says he has divided salah into 2 equal halves Then Allah says “this is between me and my slave and my slave will be given what ever he asks for” Then when a person stands up for prayer and says ALHUMDULLILAHI RABILALAMEEN Whether someone is praising Allah or not praising Allah, ALLAH STILL DESERVES ALL PRAISE. Timeless praise is EXCLUSIVELY for Allah. What is the etymology of word? (it means the ORIGIN of the word, the ROOT of word, where it come from, what did it initially mean, how did it come to the meaning where it is now) SARF- has etymology and morphology Modern day Arabic only covers MORPHOLOGY (how a word changes, say when with 2 women or 2 men) Etymology is ALSO the root, origin, and how it got to where it is now.
We will focus on Etymology. THE WORD RAB In the Arabic language the word Rab means MASTER (even Lord suffices). The thing about the word Rab is you understand the meaning of the word by looking at the opposite. This is very true for classical Arabic. Like we say someone is decisive, someone who is not decisive is Indecisive. In Arabic we don’t do this. ABD is slave, the opposite of slave is NOT “ghayr abd” What is the opposite of ABD (slave)? The opposite of slave is RAB (Master). The introduction of Allah in the Quran says RABB, the very FIRST attribute that Allah assigns to himself in the Quran is RABB. When Allah introduced himself to the Ambiya, the prophets, and the messengers, Allah introduced himself as RAB! (IQRA BISMIRABIKALADHI KHALAQ) Or YA MUSA IN ANNA RABUKA… RAB is such a comprehensive word that integrates and incorporates MANY OTHER ATTIRBUTES of ALLAH, This is a VERY LAYERED word. Rab implies SOMEONE WHO HAS OWNERSHIP (MAALIK- SOMOENE WHO FEEDS OR STUSTAINS (RAAZIQ) SOMEONE WHO MAINTAINS (QAYIM) SOMEOE WHO PROTECTS (HAFEEDTH) SOMEONE WHO GUIDES (HAADI) All of these meanings are built into the word RABB which is why a lot of times this is first used to describe Allah ALLHUMDULILLAH I RABIL AALAMEEN THE WORD AALAMEEN AL AALAAMEEN (THIS is plural word which comes from AALAM This word AALAM actually doesn’t just refer to world, but A REALM (a place and time where things exists) Lord of the words is INCORRECT ALAAMEEN is what we call people plural (talking only about people living beings) The plural that would mean worlds is AWAALIM but Allah doesn’t say this, Allah say ALAMEEN What it really means is ALLAH LORD AND MASTER OF ALL THE NATIONS. Because it refers to a time and place where people live. Can you imagine someone 1400 years ago coming right now and seeing us sitting in this room? The laptop would freak him out, the lighting would confuse him, the cars, the phones all will seem so different to him. So it’s a DIFFERENT realm of existence for that person! It’s the same dunya, same world, but if a person was to walk into this area, they would feel like they are in a DIFFERENT WORLD! So that’s what ALA MEEN refers to. Different places and times people have lives Even the realm of the jinns is an example of another realm that is just one of the many realms Allah is Lord and Master of. When a person says ALHUMDULILLAHIRABILALAMEEN….ALLAH RESPONDS! This is a HUMBLING MOMENT! THINK ABOUT IT, ALLAH RESPONDS TO YOU! HE IS SPEAKING TO YOU HE IS HAVING A DIALGUE WITH YOU! HE IS ADDRESSING YOU PERSONALLY! ALLAH WAS LISTENING TO YOU WHEN YOU SAID ALHUDULILLAHIRABILALAMEEN HE NOW RESPONDS BACK HE IS SPEAKING TO YOU IT IS AMAIZNG WHEN YOU THINK ABOIUT IT WHEN YOU STAND FOR SALAH AND LET IT SINK IN There is nothing like Allah, can’t compare. But think about it, say you are sitting with someone important to you, president or ceo, or someone who stands at the top. If you are sitting with that person and you are talking that person. This person in his busy and hard to get schedule, has given you his time , his attention. Say the president sits with you one on one and is talking to you, would you start looking off to the other direction? “Sorry I didn’t hear you- what where you saying again?” NO You would be attentive, focused, looking at him, this is the greatest experience in your life, it doesn’t get better! Everyone in the world wants to be in your shoe. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING…someone not even that good! BUT ALLAH, the CREATOR OF EVERYTHING in the entire Universe! THE SUSTAINER THE PROVIDER OF EVERYTHING, HEEEEE IS SPEAKING TO US! But no, for some reason while you are in salah all of a sudden the hole in the wall intrigues you! That hole would have been so insignificant any other time in your life but only in salah does it become to interesting- so unfortunate! So Allah responds!! ALLAH RESPONDS HA MA Dee ABDI (HE HAS PRASIED ME ) This is Allah ACKNOWLEDGING us, this is Allah accepting our praise, our offering, our words. Despite our flaws, our issues, our inattentiveness, Allah is ACCEPTING our praise. THE WORDS ARAHMAAN ARAHEEM WA IDHA QAAL, (THE SLAVE SAYS) “ARAHMAAN ARAHEEM” He then presents 2 attributes of Allah, They both come from root word of MERCY What do these words means? Rahmaan The major difference of opinion comes between the scholars of tafseer (engaging in linguistic analysis more so then others) and the scholars of Arabic grammar (who focus on studying the language)
Notice the sound it creates (the MAAAN sounds) QurAAN also has this extended ending sound when its said. Quran comes from the root word “to recite”, When ever the “AAAAN” sound is added to word, it implies ABUNDANCE Quran means something that is just read, and QURAAAAN is something that is read a lot So here RAHMAAAN- someone who is VERY VERY MERCIFUL, Abundance of his mercy knows absolutely NO BOUNDS!
RAHEEM implies CONSTANCY- Someone who is CONSTANTLY MERCIFUL. (such as kareem , azeez, majeed, ghafoor, ) all imply constancy
RAHEEM implies constancy Allah responds to you again! The dialogue continues Yüklə 405,54 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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