19. NOMADS ARE ELOQUENT
Know that Allah has instilled certain things in the soul (nafs) that do not need to be proven. People know them by nature, but most people are unable to express them.
For example, Allah instilled in people the disposition that creation must have had a creator, and that a building must have had a builder. That two is more than one, and that an object cannot be in two places at the same time. Such things do not need to be proven.
He has inspired Arabs to speak without making linguistic errors. They distinguish between marfu’ (as being a normative case) and mansub (as being an objective case) by nature, even if they fail to express the reason with words.
They used to contemplate speech and give each word its correct position. ‘Uthman Ibn Jinni said, “A language is a compilation of sounds that people use to express themselves. And Nahw (grammar rules) are used to imitate the way certain people speak.”
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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