al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, One of the issues encountered when translating any text into another language is the extent to which dynamic or formal equivalence should be retained in the translation. One of the levels of connotation lost in translation relates to the semantic function of a word’s morphology, and this is especially true when …
al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, Many languages of the world contain words that reflect certain concepts that are hard to capture by a single word in any other language. One example is the word ‘ilunga’ in the Tshiluba language, which means ‘a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate …
al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, As the new student begins to learn Arabic vocabulary, one of the things that immediately strikes them is that a single word will often have many different shades of meaning. This phenomenon is known as al-Ishtiraak (lit. ‘sharing’, ‘association’) and such words are referred to as being a mushtarak lafdhee المشترك …
al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, If Arabic is a sea, then the Qur'an is the most precious treasures, jewels, pearls and gems that can be found in the sea. But reaching these treasures requires a diver skilled in deep thought and contemplation. One of the prerequisites for a diver to reach this level of skill, is …
al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, In Sūrah al-Shu‘arā’ (77-81), Prophet Ibrāhīm (‘alayhi al-salaam) speaks about the blessings that Allāh has bestowed upon him: الَّذِي خَلَقَنِي فَهُوَ يَهْدِينِ Who has created me, and it is He Who guides me وَالَّذِي هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِي وَيَسْقِينِ And it is He Who feeds me and gives me to drink. …
