مَاء water in Arabic
مَاء is how you say “water” in Arabic.
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فمتى قَدَرَ على الماء قَبْلَ الدخول في الصلاة بَطَلَ تيممُه
If one can access water before starting the prayer, their Tayammum is void.
الْمَاءِ water
'the water,' in the -i form after 'on' — what he gains access to. Finding water is precisely what undoes the dry-earth substitute, as the verdict ahead states.
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أمّا إذا أتمَّ فريضةً بالتيمم ثم استمر وجودُ الماء بعد السلام، بَطَلَ تيممُه فلا يستبيح به نافلةً
If one completed an obligatory prayer with Tayammum and then water became available after the Salam, their Tayammum is void, and they cannot perform a voluntary prayer with it.
الْمَاءِ water
'the water,' in the -i form, owned in 'the presence of water.' Its lasting availability after the prayer is what triggers the ruling that follows.
وهذا للانسان قطعًا لا للماء
And this is clearly for the human, not for the water.
لِلْمَاءِ for the water
This couples the preposition li- ('for/to') with 'the water', genitive after the preposition, made definite by 'the'. Under the negation it is the ruled-out alternative, 'not for the water', completing the 'for X not for Y' contrast.
السابع أن رد الماء إلى الاحليل أو الصلب بعد خروجه منه غير معروف ولا هو أمر معتاد جرت به القدرة وإن كان مقدورًا للرب تعالى
The seventh is that returning water to the urethra or backbone after it has departed is neither known nor a usual occurrence allowed by power, even if it is something the Lord Almighty can do.
المَاءِ water
This is the owner noun 'the water' closing 'returning of the water', in the genitive of the possessive pair, made definite by 'the'. It names what is returned and lends definiteness back to 'returning'.
وهو لم يخبره بقدرة خالقه على رد الماء في إحليله بعد مفارقته له
And He did not inform him of his Creator's ability to return the water to his urethra after it has departed from it.
المَاءِ the water
This noun carries 'the' and is owned by the verbal noun before it: 'the returning of the water'. The two nouns stand directly together to mean 'of', with no separate word, and this owning noun takes the genitive ending of the possessed chain.
حتى يدعوه إلى النظر فيما خلق منه ليستقبح منه صحة إمكان رد الماء
So that He might invite him to reflect on what he was created from, deeming the possibility of water's return improbable.
المَاءِ water
This noun carries 'the' and closes the possessive chain as what is returned: the return of the water. It sits directly after the noun that owns it, taking the genitive ending, with no separate word for 'of'.
التاسع أنه لا ارتباط بين النظر في مبدأ خلقه ورد الماء في الاحليل بعد خروجه
The ninth point is that there is no connection between reflecting on the origin of his creation and the return of the water to the urethra after it has exited.
المَاءِ of the water
This noun carries 'the' and is owned by the verbal noun before it: the return of the water. The two nouns stand directly together for 'of', and this owning noun takes the genitive ending of a possessed chain.
أي على رجعه إليه يوم القيامة كما هو قادر على خلقه من ماء هذا شأنه هذا هو الصحيح في معنى الآية
Meaning, He is capable of returning him to Him on the Day of Resurrection just as He is capable of creating him from water. This is the correct interpretation of the verse.
مَاءٍ water
An indefinite noun governed by 'from', the original material; the lack of 'the' keeps it 'water' in a general sense, and the ending marks it as ruled by the preposition. Bareness gives the unspecified sense.