الشَّرْعِيَّانِthe two legal

Example sentences

• الَّذِينَ سُقِطَ عَنْهُمْ الأَمْرُ وَالنَّهْيُ الشَّرْعِيَّانِ كَانَ مِنْ أَشِرَ أَهْلَ الكُفْرِ وَالإِلْحَادِ

  Those for whom the religious command and prohibition had ceased to apply were among the most wicked of the people of disbelief and denial.

  الشَّرْعِيَّانِ — the two legal. A dual adjective, a form for exactly two, describing both 'command' and 'prohibition' at once. Arabic folds 'two' into the word's ending rather than adding a separate number word, and that dual ending is what shows it covers the pair, not one.

  From: What Worship Really Means →