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 "id": "concept/arabiyya",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "arabiyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العَرَبِيَّة",
  "en": "The Arabic language in jurisprudence (arabiyya)",
  "ur": "عربی زبان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العربية في اللغة من عَرُب لسانه فصار عربياً فصيحاً، واللغة العربية ما نطقت به العرب، ونزل القرآن بها بحسب ما قاله الأزهري {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. واستعمال الفقهاء للفظ لا يخرج عن معناه اللغوي {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. والعجمية خلاف العربية، واللغة أعم منها لأنها تشمل كل كلام يعبر به قوم عن أغراضهم {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. وللغة العربية فضل بأنها لسان أهل الجنة، ويثاب المرء على تعلمها وتعليمها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}. ويرى الشافعي أن معرفة لسان العرب فرض على كل مكلف بقدر الجهد، ويتأكد على المجتهد، ويشترط الفقهاء العربية في قراءة القرآن والأذكار في الصلاة وخطبة الجمعة {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}.",
  "en": "In the lexicon, 'Arabic' (arabiyya) describes a language that is eloquent and pure; the Arabic language is what the Arabs spoke, and the Qur'an came down in it. The jurists' usage stays within this meaning {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. The opposite of Arabic is 'ajamiyya (non-Arabic); language (lugha) is wider, covering any speech by which a people express their aims {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. Arabic has merit as the tongue of the people of paradise, and a person is rewarded for learning and teaching it {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}. Al-Shafi'i holds that knowing the Arabic language is obligatory on every responsible Muslim as far as his effort allows, and more so for the mujtahid; the jurists require Arabic for the Qur'an's recitation, the dhikr in prayer, the call to prayer and the Friday sermon {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "development-of-law-theology-institutions"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «عَرَبِيَّة»، ص 11542-11544 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w07-batch5"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword عَرَبِيَّة complete on scan pp.11542-11544 (definition, related terms, merit, ruling, required Arabic). Cross-reference عرج (انظر: أعرج) on p.11544 is skipped. Next headword عِرس begins on scan p.11544. Footnote citations omitted"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العربية في اللغة الفصاحة، واللغة العربية ما نطقت به العرب، ونزل القرآن بها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}. واستعمال الفقهاء للفظ لا يخرج عن معناه اللغوي {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الألفاظ ذات الصلة",
     "markdown": "العجمية خلاف العربية، واللغة أعم منهما لأنها تشمل كل ما يعبر به قوم عن أغراضهم {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "فضل اللغة العربية",
     "markdown": "للعربية فضل لأنها لسان أهل الجنة، ويثاب المرء على تعلمها وتعليمها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم التكليفي وما يشترط فيه",
     "markdown": "يرى الشافعي أن معرفة لسان العرب فرض على كل مكلف بقدر جهده، وهي في حق المجتهد أشد لفهم الخطاب ومعانيه {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}. ويشترط الفقهاء العربية في قراءة القرآن، والأذكار في الصلاة، والتكبير، والأذان، وخطبة الجمعة {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مواطن البحث",
     "markdown": "تُفصّل مسائل الترجمة في موضعها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/arabiyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In the lexicon, Arabic (arabiyya) is eloquence and purity of speech; the Arabic language is what the Arabs spoke, and the Qur'an came down in it. The jurists' usage stays within this meaning {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Related terms",
     "markdown": "'Ajamiyya is the opposite of Arabic; lugha is wider, covering any speech by which a people express their aims {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Merit of Arabic",
     "markdown": "Arabic has merit as the tongue of the people of paradise, and a person is rewarded for learning and teaching it {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "General ruling and what must be known",
     "markdown": "Al-Shafi'i holds that knowing the Arabic language is obligatory on every responsible Muslim as far as his effort allows, and more so for the mujtahid, who must understand its words and meanings {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}. The jurists require Arabic for the recitation of the Qur'an, the dhikr in prayer, the takbir, the call to prayer and the Friday sermon {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Where it is discussed",
     "markdown": "Questions of translation are treated under their own entry {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/arabiyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لغت میں عربیت فصاحت کو کہتے ہیں، اور عربی زبان وہ ہے جو عرب بولتے تھے اور جس میں قرآن نازل ہوا {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11542}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم کا خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "امام شافعی کے نزدیک ہر مکلف پر عربی زبان کی معرفت بقدرِ استطاعت لازم ہے، اور مجتہد پر اس کی زیادہ ضرورت ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11543}۔ قرآت، اذکارِ نماز، اذان اور خطبۂ جمعہ میں عربی کی شرط ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11544}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/arabiyya",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
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  "concept/add",
  "concept/adl",
  "concept/adwa",
  "concept/afw",
  "concept/ahd",
  "concept/ajal",
  "concept/ajir",
  "concept/ajnabi"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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