The Sciences of Grammar, Lexicography and Qurʼanic Exegesis

( ʻIlm al-naḥw )

al-Naḥwīyūn lā baʼs bihim wa-ʻilmuhum ḥasan yuḥtāj ilayhi lākin al-naḥwī idhā amʻana fī al-ʻArabīyah wa-ʻariya min ʻilm al-kitāb wa-al-sunnah baqiya fārighan baṭṭālan laʻʻāban wa-lā yasʼaluhu Allāh taʻālá wa-al-ḥālah hādhihi ʻan ʻilmihi fī al-ākhirah bal huwa ka-ṣanʻah min al-ṣanāʼiʻ ka-al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥisāb wa-al-handasah lā yuthāb ʻalayhā wa-lā yuʻāqab idhā lam yatakabbar ʻalá al-nās wa-lā yataḥāmal ʻalayhim wa-ittaqá Allāh taʻālá wa-tawāḍaʻa wa-ṣāna nafsahu .

( ʻIlm al-lughah )

al-Lughawīyūn qad ʻudimū fī zamāninā (١) fa-tajid al-faqīh lā yadrī al-lughah wa-al-muqriʼ lā yadrī lughat al-Qurʼān wa-al-muḥaddith lā yaʻtanī bi-lughat al-ḥadīth fa-hādhā tafrīṭ wa-jahl fa-yanbaghī al-iʻtināʼ bi-lughat al-kitāb wa-al-sunnah li-yufham al-khiṭāb .

( ʻIlm al-tafsīr )

Qall man yaʻtanī al-yawm bi-al-tafsīr bal yuṭāliʻ al-mudarrisūn tafsīr al-Fakhr

— al-ḥawāshī —

[19] (١) fī ʻaṣr al-muṣannif ullifa « mithl Lisān al-ʻArab » wa «Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ» wa «al-Miṣbāḥ» wa-ghayruhā min al-maʻājim al-kabīrah wa-al-ṣaghīrah al-mutadāwalah li-yawminā hādhā , wa-kāna al-Majd fī ṭarīqihi ilá jamʻ ( al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ ) fa-lā yaḥiqq lahu al-shakwá illā idhā kāna murāduhu istinhāḍ himam al-muḥaṣṣilīn lil-ʻināyah bi-al-lughah kamā yanbaghī .