Deflection at Qatrb (d. 206H) in his book “The Meanings of the Qur’an and an Explanation of the Problem of its Syntax”

Abstract

Imala is one of the important phenomena that the ancients addressed through their grammatical and morphological studies without studying it independently. This is what is taken from them because they did not separate the levels of linguistic study through these phenomena. It is an accidental incident for them and is not intended and not inevitable. Rather, it is an art that aims at harmony and consistency between letters and vowels, although they were not far from its essence. They had pauses in its terminology. There are terms that indicate the phenomenon of imala itself with different words, as mentioned by Sibawayh and those who followed him from the guardians of the language. Qatrib defined it as an approximation of the letter Ya’ as will become clear. Imala is not limited to the letter Alif only, but it has other phonetic connections, which Qatrib dealt with in his Quranic applications. As for the modernists, they described the sound of imala as a sound that stares from the height of the front of the liyan towards the front of the cave, a height that is greater than its height with the thinned Fatha, and less than its height with the Kasra, and the position of the lips with imala is a position of separation. However, without the relief that comes with the Kasra, and thus they expanded the scope of their understanding of this phenomenon, although these positions were based on the dialectal origins of the Arab tribes, and this is what the research in which we tried to show those positions and their manifestations in the verses of the Holy Quran proved, which the Arabs were unable to master in their language, which they always sang about and described themselves as pure in its performance and creative in its metaphor, as the Holy Quran came in the language of the Arabs and their methods of eloquent pronunciation emanating from the environment in which this linguistic phenomenon arose, as will become clear in the folds of this research, which we paved the way for about the concept of inclination and its history, then we showed the opinions of ancient and modern linguists about it through the applications that Qatrib addressed about this phenomenon.