Discover the meaning of the term Itirad (اعتراض) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 3 min readIt is coming amid speech, or between two connected speeches, with a meaning in one or more sentences having no place in declension, for a point other than the raised thumb; it is called…
Lexically: crowding; also said i’tirad, meaning crowding and difficulty. As a term: coming amid speech, or between two connected speeches, with a meaning in one or more sentences without place in declension, for a point other than the raised thumb; also called al-hachw, like the glorification in His word: « they attribute to Allah daughters: purity to Him! and for them what they desire »: His word « purity to Him » is an interpolated phrase, implying a verb, come amid the speech, His word « and for them what they desire » coordinated to « to Allah the daughters ». The point: sanctifying Allah of what is attributed to Him.
It is the hindrance; one says: oppose it not, that is, interpose not so as to bar it reaching its aim. One says: I walked and a mountain spur barred my way, that is, an obstacle barring passage. I’tirad among the faqihs: the sperm’s non-diffusion in intercourse; the hindrance may come before penetration or after.
Coming amid speech, or between two connected speeches, with a meaning in one or more sentences without place in declension, for a point other than the raised thumb, as the star going to join a star, and before reaching it the joined one returns to another sign and another star joins it.
Coming amid speech or between two connected speeches, with a meaning in one or more sentences without place in declension, for a point other than the raised thumb; also called al-hachw, as « they attribute to Allah daughters: purity to Him » (an-Nahl 57): « purity to Him » is interpolated, implying a verb, come amid the speech, its point sanctifying Allah of what is attributed to Him.