ية L ربEAعR الN ة A غR لA الB I مC تعل
Anything and Everything
The ghurra of everything is the beginning of a thing. For
example, ghurrat shahren (month) means the beginning of
the month.
Literally, kabid is the middle of anything. It also means
liver, heart, or any essential organ without which existence
of certain life forms is impossible. Thus, kabid is often used
in the meaning of anything that has a soul. ‘Ayesha j says,
“The blessed Prophet a passed away when there was not
a thing on my shelf that a living soul (dhu kabad) could eat
except a little barley on my shelf…” (Bukhari).
The khatima of anything is the end of something. Bara’ g
says in a hadith of Bukhari, “The last sura to be revealed
was the end (khatima) of Surat al-Nisa.”
The gharb of anything is its edge or boundary. In a prophesy:
The coming of Sufyani (i.e. the forerunner to the coming
of Imam Mehdi); he will first come out in a village by
the border (gharb) of Shaam in a place called Andara among
a group of seven people (al-Fitan of Nu‘aym bin Hammad).
The root or essence of anything is the jidhr. In a hadith
of Bukhari: Trust (amana) was first revealed into the roots
(jidhr) of men’s hearts.
The ghaur of anything is its bottom or depth. Imam
Bukhari explained that the word can be used as a descriptive
for both the singular, dual and plural noun as in: ma’un
ghaurun (deep water), ma’ani ghaurun (two deep bodies of
waters), and miyahun ghaurun (three or more deep bodies
of water) (Bukhari; ikram al-dayf).
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