The Permissible Unpleasant According to Ibn al-Sarraj (D. 316 AH) in his Book “The Basics in Grammar”

Abstract

It was acknowledged from the Arabs that they say: I spoke ugly, and with ugly words, and the ugly is taken from the verb (ugliness), it is said: ugliness(the base) and the ugly is the opposite of good in the form alone or general in everything. The Arabs objected to a number of linguistic structures. Because it came in violation of their speech modalities, their linguistic uses, and their grammatical rules. They disapproved of these structures, some of the scholars allowed some of their ugliness, and among these scholars was Ibn al-Sarraj (d. He singled out a number of scholars for its ugliness, and he allowed some of them for its ugliness, and he referred to that by saying: (it is permissible in my view for its ugliness to other linguistic expressions established in the body of this research. The permissible is equal to the two parties, the action and the abandonment, and it is synonymous with the permissible according to the jurists, and it is that which does not deserve reward by doing it or not punishing it, and its opposite is forbidden.

The importance of this research comes from the fact that it came to study the issues and structures that Ibn Al-Sarraj was unique to, so he rejected them and permitted some of them to be ugly, by analyzing them and tracking their causes and seeking the causes of those who left them without explanation.

 We will answer during the research what can be asked about if these linguistic structures are ugly, why were they permitted? Does saying that it is permissible bring it closer to goodness, or is it justification for linguistic use? .

The nature of the research necessitated that I divide it into nine issues, including: the nominative noun after the noun of the subject even if it does not depend on something, and the sympathy for the accusative connected pronoun and the hidden pronoun without emphasis.

 The researcher reached the most important results:

1. Ibn al-Sarraj allowed the noun to nominate the subject after the noun of the subject that did not depend on anything, even if it was ugly, in order to achieve the benefit with the full meaning of the speech.


2. Ibn Al-Sarraj allowed the occurrence of the past sentence immediately, even if that is ugly because the frequent occurrence of the past verb immediately in the tongue of the Arabs is a large number that should be measured.