Discover the meaning of the term Jars (جرس) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 3 min readThe summarizing of divine address arriving upon the heart with a form of coercion; hence the Prophet likened revelation to the bell’s clang and to a chain drawn over a rock, saying: it is the hardest of revelation, for unveiling the detail of rulings from the depths of the summary’s obscurity is of utmost difficulty.
With fatha of jim and ra, then waw omitted; al-Qadi ’Iyad relates the sukun of ra: it is the jingle, from jarss, the muffled sound; with kasra of the first letter one says: of him is heard neither jingle nor whisper; I heard the birds’ jingle, the sound of their beaks. Al-jourmouq, with damma of jim: the mouwkh arabized of youmoukh, for jim and qaf meet in a word only if arabized: a small boot worn over the shoe to keep it from mud and the like, per the well-known. Also said: a stocking lined within. Also said: what is worn over the shoe absolutely. In al-Misbah: a small stocking worn in the shoe; plural jouramiq; called mawkh, dual jarmiqayn; jourmouqan: two thick boots without stems. Ibn Sidah said: it is arabized, and every word holding jim and qaf is so, say several linguists. Al-jourban: shaped like the shoe, made of matting and covered with leather. Note: the difference between jourmouq and jourb is only the jourmouq’s specification as worn over the shoe, the jourb worn over the shoe or alone.
Like a bell: the muffled speech and summary of divine address arriving upon the heart with a form of coercion; hence the Prophet likened revelation to a chain drawn over a rock, that is, the bell’s clang; and said it is the hardest, for unveiling rulings’ detail from the depths of the summary’s obscurity is of utmost difficulty.
What hangs on the camel’s neck and others and rings.