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Hi all

I would like to know what it means when a is of another word. Someone told me

that every harf jar is ta'allaq "hanging" on something else. For example, in the phrase

there is a hidden ] [ :

Can someone explain the concept of "hanging" for the huruf jar, and how this affects the

sentence structure (i.e., mubtada and khabr)?

Thanks a lot!

Abu Bishr

Senior Member

An action (as indicated by verbs or verb-like nouns) necessarily proceeds from an agent /

doer and optionally proceeds onto an object whether directly or indirectly via a preposition

(i.e. Harf jarr). Both the agent and object are nouns.

Consider the following example:

(The student asked the teacher about the lesson)

Now, all three nouns in the sentence ( ) are connected to the verb ( ) inone way or the other:

is connected to verb as being its agent

is connected to the verb as being its direct object, and

is connected to the verb as being its indirect object, in the sense that the verb is

connected to it via the preposition ( ) . In other words, prepositions connect verbs to nouns,

such that no preposition exists unless there exist with it explicitly or implicitly a verb (or

verb-like noun) to which it connects the noun that it governs. This makes the preposition (as

well as the noun that it governs) always connected to the verb. It is this connection that

classical grammarians have termed (al-ta'alluq). In fact, one of the reasons why the Harf

jarr is called as such is that it draws / pulls (jarr) the meaning of the verb (or verb-like noun)

onto the noun that it governs.

It therefore follows that virtually every Harf jarr can be related or connected to a verb (or

verb-like noun). If this verb or verb-like noun is not explicit then we assume its existence asbeing implicit.

Thus, in the light of the aforementioned discussion you should be clear as to why in the

sentence the prepositional phrase ( ) is assumed to be connected to an implicit verb

( ) or verb-like noun ( ), otherwise you have a situation with a preposition that hangs in

limbo not being connected to a verb or verb-like noun.

I hope this clarifies the meaning of for you.

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