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تَأْوِيل interpretation in Arabic

تَأْوِيل is how you say “interpretation” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

والذب عنه لتأويل المحرفين وتعرض الطاغين

And defend it from the misinterpretations of those who distort and the attacks of tyrants.

لِتَأْوِيلِ from the misinterpretations

The 'li-' here points to what the defense is aimed against — the misreading. The noun, an action-noun for 'twisted interpretation,' opens an 'of' pair telling whose twisting: the distorters'.

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والأصولي الذي طرد التأويل عند الآخرين جهميا ومعتزليا وضالا،

And the theologian who pursues interpretation is considered by others as a Jahmi, a Mu'tazili, and misguided.

التَّأْوِيلَ the interpretation

This noun, the interpretation, is the accusative object of the verb and definite by 'al-'. It names what the scholar pushed through, the specific reinterpreting of texts.

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