Discover the meaning of the term Al-idmaj (إدماج) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readIn language: winding; technically: that speech framed for a meaning, whether praise or other, contain another meaning; and this is broader than istitba', for it includes praise and other, while istitba' is specific to praise.
In language: the insertion of a thing into a thing; one says: I embedded (adamjtu) the thing in the garment, when I wound it in it.
In the speech ornaments (badi'): that the speaker embeds a purpose in a purpose, or an ornament in an ornament, so that only one of the two appears in the speech, as in the Most High's word: 'To Him be praise at the first and the last': the purpose, glorified be He, singles Him out by the praise's attribute, and embeds in it the allusion to resurrection and requital.
In language: winding. In the ornamental art's sense: that speech framed for a meaning, praise or blame, contain another meaning; and this is broader than istitba', for it includes praise and other, while istitba' is specific to praise.
In language: obscuring speech; one says: he obscured his speech (adamja kalamahu): made it obscure. In the consecrated sense: inserting into speech framed for a meaning, praise or other, another meaning. (Al-Tawqif, p. 46; al-Kulliyyat, p. 67). Ad-dahan: masdar of adhana on the ifta'ala pattern: anointing with oil; ad-duhn: what one anoints with, oil or other; its plural adhhan with kasra; al-idhan: the anointing with oil; one says: a dahiyya beard: anointed.
That speech insert speech framed for another meaning.
Obscuring speech: he obscured his speech (adamja kalamahu): made it obscure. In the consecrated sense: inserting into speech framed for a meaning, praise or other, another meaning; and this is broader than istitba', for it includes praise and other, unlike it (al-Ta'rifat, p. 14).