💯 Miscellaneous Benefits from Yemen

BENEFIT 19 This is the arrangement of the Arabic alphabet which most of us are familiar with: ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن هـ و ء ي This is known as the هِجَائِي arrangement. It is the easiest arrangement when it comes to teaching people how to read the Arabic Alphabet, because it groups letters together by similarity of shape. However, there is another arrangement of the Arabic alphabet which most of us are less familiar with, although it has been around for a very long time and is still in use today. This is known as the أَبْجَدِي arrangement, and it looks like this: أَبْجَد هَوَّز حُطِّي كَلَمُن سَعَفَص قَرَشَت ثَخَذ ضَظَغ Abjad hawwaz ḥuṭṭī kalamun saʿfaṣ qarashat thakhadh ḍaẓagh Note 1: In this arrangement there are 28 letters all together, however the first letter represents two letters; Alif (ا) & Hamzah (ء) Note 2: Sheikhul Islām Ibn Taymiyyah raḥimahullāh said: «والصواب أن هذه ليست أسماء لمسميات، وإنما ألفت ليعرف تأليف الأسماء من حروف المعجم بعد معرفة حروف المعجم» “What is correct is that these (phrases) do not represent names of anything (i.e. They are meaningless), but rather they have been assembled (in this way) to illustrate the Alphabet letters and to clarify the fact that nouns are constructed using these Alphabet letters.” [Majmū’ Al-Fatāwā (12/ 62)] The Abjad arrangement may not be as popular, but it is still in use today. It has 2 main uses: 1⃣. It is used for numbering items in a list, similar to, "A.", "B.", and "C." If you check the Madinah Book series, you will find numerous examples of this throughout. 2⃣. It is also used to assign numerical value to Arabic words and phrases. Please refer to the tables posted yesterday (https://t.me/madrasatuna/1999) to know the numerical value of each letter. Example 1: the first half of line 107 from Al-Jazariyyah (a poem in Tajweed) reads: أَبْيَاتُهَا قَافٌ وَزَايٌ فِي الْعَدَدْ Its lines number ق & ز [so if we refer to the table, we get the value 107 [100 (ق) + 7 (ز)] Example 2: A poet used the Abjad numerical system to record the deaths of the four great Imams: لنعمانهم (قان) و (طعق) لمالك * وللشافعي (در) و (رم) لابن حنبل * نعمان بن ثابت = أبو حنيفة قان = .Abu Haneefah 151H طعق = .Malik ibn Anas 179H در = .Ash-Shaafi'e 204H رم = .Ahmad ibn Hanbal 240H Example 3: Imam As-Si'di records the date when Al-Jaami' Al-Qadeem was first built as: تاريخه حين انتهى * قول المنيب (اغفر لي) اغفر لي = .1362H This has to be the most creative of the three examples اللهم بارك.