Discover the meaning of the term Al-maʿnaā (مَعْنَى) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 4 min readThat the time of the adhan became unclear to him and he was bewildered by it, as though he had slept.
Raid while you are victorious and gaining your spoils, before he becomes humbled and weak and like the thumam (the cut grass, of no worth).
There is no motion nor power except by the will of Allah the Exalted. It has been said that al-hawl is the device (al-hila), but the first is more likely.
Take hold of what has no taint of doubt, like the ra'ib of milk, which is the pure, having no doubt nor turbidity; and beware of the ra'ib of them, that is, the thing bearing doubt and turbidity. It has been said: milk, when it forms and curdles, is ra'ib, even if it contains its cream; and likewise when its butter is drawn from it, it is ra'ib too. It has been said: the first is from raba al-laban yarub (the milk rose to the surface), and it is ra'ib; the second is from raba yarib, when one falls into doubt: that is, hold to the pure of things and leave aside what is doubtful.
No prayer suffices or is valid without the Fatiha.
Whoever declares lawful the sale of wine, let him declare lawful the sale of the pig, for the two are equal in being forbidden. It is an imperative expression whose meaning is prohibition; it is understood: whoever sells wine, let him become a butcher of swine. Az-Zamakhshari attributed it to the speech of ash-Sha'bi. It is an elevated hadith related by al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, and it is in the Sunan of Abu Dawud.
I sought it in the places where the lawful is known.
If your blood is sought, then my blood is sought: my blood and your blood are one.
Turn your guile against my enemies, not me. The root of al-makr is deception; one says: makara yamkuru makran.
My two parents sinned, and I am punished for their sin.
That he recites it without fluency or understanding, heedless of what is commanded, careless of how he recites it, as the cow does with the grass when it eats it.
That he is not held liable for the crime of another among his relatives, near or distant: when one of them commits a crime, the other is not punished for it, as in the saying of the Exalted: (and no bearer of burden bears the burden of another), repeated often in the hadith.
Give her the morsel so that she may push away with it the intensity of gazing at you.
What is aimed at by means of a thing.
Whoever inscribed himself in the register (diwan) of exemption to be excused from jihad, there being no defect (zaman) in him, Allah will send him forth on the Day of Resurrection in the state of zamana. The meaning of iktatab: he asked to be written among the excused. Some related it from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As.