أَلْفَاظwords

Example sentences

• وإن كان مما لا يدرك بالاجتهاد كالأمور التي طريقها النقل وتفسير الألفاظ اللغوية فلا يجوز الكلام فيه إلا بنقل صحيح من جهة المعتمدين من أهله

  And if it is something not reachable through juristic effort, like matters whose path is transmission and the explanation of linguistic expressions, then speaking on it is not allowed except with authentic transmission from reliable authorities.

  الأَلْفَاظِ — of words. A broken plural, 'the wordings,' owned in 'the explaining of the wordings.' These are the vocabulary items whose meanings only the language's experts can supply — hence beyond mere reasoning.

  From: How Scholars Read Scripture →

• ٣ ومنهم من يفسر ألفاظه العربية من غير وقوف على معانيها عند أهلها وهي مما لا يؤخذ إلا بالسماع من أهل العربية وأهل التفسير

  3 - And among them are those who interpret Arabic words without knowing their meanings as understood by the experts, meanings which can only be learned by listening to Arabic scholars and interpreters.

  أَلْفَاظَهُ — his words. A broken plural, 'its words,' in the -a form as object of 'explains,' with 'its' (the Book's) attached. These are the wordings he presumes to interpret — the thing he handles without proper knowledge.

  From: How Scholars Read Scripture →