Author name:
هند مناضل عباس
Supervisor name:
حسن عبيد المعموري
Abstract:
Omission is a vast topic in the study of Arabic. Arabic is a language of terseness. Omission is one of the two methods of terseness in Arabic. These two methods are : terseness of limitation and terseness of omission. Arabic native speakers averted from complicated structures; they were more inclined to use simple and easy structures. Quran was revealed in Arabic; it is, however, a heavenly book, miraculous in its lexical, semantic, and stylistic systems. Each word in Quran serves a purpose and is accurately placed, not arbitrarily. Therefore, the statement : there is omission of a particle, word, phrase or sentence is unsettled argument amongst classical and modern scholars. Hence, grammarians adopted the approach of omission and prediction in Quran since their purpose is to parse, to teach the grammar of Arabic, and to find out the abrogators and abrogated. Nonetheless, this approach does not necessarily befit Quran since it is imperative to understand Allah's speech without omission - dropping words - or prediction - adding non - existent words which are not mentioned in the original text to refer to certain meaning. Accordingly, there would be deviation the intended meaning (referent) to which utterances - particles, verbs, phrases, and sentences - are used. Essentially, in Quran, each particle, word, and Sura is connected to one another in meaning and reference as if they are connected rings that should not be separated which, in turn, shows one secrete of the Quranic miraculousness.The reason of choosing this topic is basically motivated by the suggestion of my supervisor. After having read Keshif Al Musshkilat (Revealing Conundrums), I found it, for the most part, basing the analysis of the Quranic text on omission. Almost all the pages contain a parsing possibility or a grammatical explanation that is based on omission. Accordingly, I came to the realization that this topic is of critical importance and worthy of investigation and study. Therefore, seeking the help of Allah, I entitled my topic of inquiry as : Omission and Prediction in the book of “Kashf al - mushikilat wa Eedhah al Mu’athilat” for Jama’ Al U’lum Al - Baquly (543 A.H.) - Critical Study.The study is divided into three chapters prefaced by a prologue entitled “The concepts of omission and prediction and Al Baquly's approach” and followed by epilogue contains the findings of the investigation. The three chapters are as follows : chapter one, omitting particles, includes the discussion of omitting prepositions, the interrogative “hamzah”, “in” of infinity, “fa’a” of the result clause, and “waw”. Chapter two, omitting nouns, focuses on omitting “Mubtada, khabar, object, the praised, the disrepute, and tamee’z, mudaf, and matu’uf, and a’aid. Chapter three, omitting sentences and clauses, includes omitting the result clause in the conditional sentence, the answer of the oath, the sentence of qaul, the sentence modified by an adverb, and the clause of a preposition.
