Guidance from Quran

Number detailed (part 2) So today we will be looking at the remaining groups from the 6 plurals. Till now we looked at masculine plural, human feminine plural and non-human feminine. To understand the next two types of plurals, we need to understand the concept of ‘broken plurals’. What is a broken plural? Think of the normal way we make a word plural in English. The normal way of doing it is by adding an ‘s’. For example car becomes cars. Toy becomes toys. Tree becomes trees and so on. But then there are other words in English that change completely when we make them plural. Like mouse becomes mice. Tooth becomes teeth. Goose becomes geese and so on. Similarly there is a normal way in which we make a word plural in Arabic. And that is by adding OONA or EENA sound at the end of a masculine word, or by adding AATUN or AATIN sound to the end of a feminine word. Take a look at the examples below. مُسْلِمٌ------------------ مُسْلِمُوْنَ مُسْلِمَةٌ ---------  ...

Number detailed (part 1) Today we will be looking at the second property of isms, ‘number’ in detail. Number can be divided into 3 parts. They are: 1.      Singular 2.      Dual 3.      Plural We don’t have to worry much about singular and dual. But when it comes to plural:- there are 6 kinds of plural. Lets look at each one of them one by one. 1.      Masculine plural Ø This usually ends with OONA or EENA sound. Example: muslimoona, saadhiqoona, mu’mineena etc.. Ø This plural is only used for humans, angels and jinns. Ø A masculine plural word will include male and females. For example if I say muslimoona, it includes muslims of both genders. Or for instance look at the ayah below. قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَ “Certainly the believers have already succeeded” Surah Al-Mu’minoon, 1 Ø In this ayah, it uses the masculine plural ‘mu’minoona’ but it doesn’t mean that on...

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Status detailed part 2: Flexibility There are 3 flexibilities of ism. 1.      Fully flexible (regular Arabic words) 2.      Partly flexible 3.      Non-flexible Fully flexible If an ism is fully flexible, it will be different in rafa’, nasb and jarr status. For example: مُسْلِمٌ (rafa’) مُسْلِمًا (nasb) مُسْلِمٍ (jarr) Most isms are fully flexible and have this pattern. All heavy words are fully flexible. Partly flexible If an ism is partly flexible, the ism will not have tanween which means they are light. And they will not have a kasrah. Some partly flexible words can be names of places: eg:- Makkah, Yathrib or it can also be non-Arab names: eg:- Dawud, Suleiman, Ibrahim Let’s look at how the ism ‘Ibrahim’ changes in different status. أِبْرَاهِيمُ (rafa’) أِبْرَاهِيمَ (nasb) أِبْرَاهِيمَ (jarr) As you can see after the nasb status, the word remains same. Thus known as ‘partly fl...