Al-Fawz al-Kabir fi Usul al-Tafsir

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إِعْجَازُ

Miraculousness

الْإِخْبَارِ

of informing

عَنِ

about

الْأَحْدَاثِ

the events

الْآتِيَةِ:

to come:

The miraculous nature of foretelling future events:

وَمِنْهَا

And among them

إِخْبَارٌ

is an information

عَنِ

about

الْأَوْضَاعِ

the conditions

وَالْأَحْدَاثِ

and the events

الْآتِيَةِ،

to come,

And among them is the foretelling of future conditions and events,

الَّتِي

which

كُلَّمَا

whenever

ظَهَرَ

appears

مِنْهَا

of it

شَيْءٌ

something

وَفْقَ

according to

مَا

what

جَاءَ

came

الْقُرْآنُ

the Quran

كَانَ

it was

دَلِيلًا

a proof

جَدِيداً

new

عَلَى

upon

إِعْجَازِهِ.

its miraculousness.

whenever something of it appears in accordance with what the Quran brought, it serves as a new proof of its miraculousness.

[إِعْجَازُ

[The miraculousness of

الْبَلَاغَةِ

the eloquence

الْعَالِيَةِ:]

high:]

[The miraculousness of high eloquence:]

وَمِنْ

And from

هَذِهِ

these

الْوُجُوهِ

aspects

تِلْكَ

is that

الذِّرْوَةُ

peak

السَّامِقَةُ

towering

مِنَ

of

الْبَلَاغَةِ

the eloquence

الْقُرْآنِيَّةِ

Quranic

And among these aspects is that towering peak of Quranic eloquence

الَّتِي

which

تَعْلُو

rises

عَلَى

above

قُدْرَةِ

the ability

الْبَشَرِ

of humans

وَتَخْرُجُ

and goes out

عَنْ

of

طَوْقِهِ،

their capacity,

which rises above human ability and goes beyond their capacity.

وَنَحْنُ

And we

إِذْ

when

نَشَأْنَا

we grew up

بَعْدَ

after

الْعَرَبِ

the Arabs

الْأَوَّلِينَ

the earliest

لَا

not

نَسْتَطِيعُ

we are able

أَنْ

to

نَصِلَ

reach

إِلَى

to

كُنْهِ

the essence

هَذِهِ

of this

الْبَلَاغَةِ

eloquence

وَحَقِيقَتِهَا،

and its reality,

And as we grew up after the earliest Arabs, we are not able to reach the essence and reality of this eloquence,

إِلَّا

except

أَنَّ

that

الْقَدْرَ

the amount

الَّذِي

that

نَعْلَمُهُ

we know it

هُوَ

is

أَنَّ

that

اسْتِعْمَالَ

the use

الْكَلِمَاتِ

of words

وَالتَّرَاكِيبِ

and structures

الْعَذْبَةِ

sweet

الْجَزْلَةِ

and robust

الَّتِي

which

وَرَدَتْ

came

فِي

in

الْقُرْآنِ

the Quran

الْكَرِيمِ

Noble

except that the amount we know is that the use of sweet and robust words and structures that came in the Noble Quran,

بِمَا

with what

تَمْتَازُ

it is distinguished

بِهِ

by it

مِنْ

of

لُطْفٍ

gentleness

وَجَمَالٍ

and beauty

وَعَدَمِ

and lack of

كُلْفَةٍ

affectation

وَصَنْعَةٍ

and artifice

لَا

not

نَجِدُ

we find

شَيْئاً

anything

مِنْهَا

of it

فِي

in

أَيِّ

any

قَصِيدَةٍ

poem

مِنْ

from

قَصَائِدِ

the poems

الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ

of the ancients

وَالْمُتَأَخِّرِينَ،

and the moderns,

with what it is distinguished by of gentleness, beauty, lack of affectation and artifice, we do not find anything of it in any poem of the poems of the ancients and the moderns,

وَهَذَا

And this

أَمْرٌ

is a matter

ذَوْقِيٌّ

of taste

لَا

not

يُدْرِكُهُ

perceives it

كَمَا

as

يَنْبَغِي

it should be

إِلَّا

except

الْمَهَرَةُ

the skilled

الْمُفْلَقُونَ

and eloquent

مِنَ

of

الشُّعَرَاءِ،

the poets,

and this is a matter of taste that is not perceived as it should be except by the skilled and eloquent poets,

وَلَيْسَ

and it is not

فِي

in

وُسْعِ

the capability

الْعَامَّةِ

of the general public

أَنْ

to

يَتَذَوَقُوهُ.

taste it.

and it is not within the capability of the general public to taste it.

وَمِنَ

And from

الْعُلُومِ

the sciences

كَذَلِكَ

as well

أَنَّ

that

الْقُرْآنَ

the Quran

الْكَرِيمَ

Noble

And from the sciences as well is that the Noble Quran

فِي

in

مَوْضِعِ

the topic

التَّذْكِيرِ

of reminding

بِآلَاءِ

of the bounties

اللَّهِ

of God

وَأَيَّامِهِ،

and His days,

in the topic of reminding of God's bounties and His days,

وَالْجَدَلِ،

and argumentation,

and argumentation,

يَكْسُو

clothes

الْمَعَانِيَ

the meanings

الْمُتَقَارِبَةَ

close to each other

فِي

in

كُلِّ

every

مَوْضِعٍ

place

لِبَاساً

a garment

جَدِيداً

new

it clothes the close meanings in every place with a new garment

حَسَبَ

according to

أُسْلُوبِ

the style

السُّورَةِ

of the Surah

الَّتِي

which

عُرِضَ

was presented

فِيهَا

in it

according to the style of the Surah in which it was presented

فِي

in

جَمَالٍ

beauty

وَطَرَافَةٍ

and freshness

لَا

not

تَسْتَطِيعُ

is able

أَنْ

to

تَتَطَاوَلَ

reach

إِلَيْهَا

to it

أَعْنَاقُ

the necks

الْبَشَرِ.

of humans.

in a beauty and freshness that the necks of humans cannot reach.

[تَنَوُّعُ

[The diversity of

الْأَسَالِيبِ

the styles

الْبَيَانِيَّةِ:]

of expression:]

[The diversity of styles of expression:]

وَإِذَا

And if

تَعَسَّرَ

it becomes difficult

عَلَى

for

أَحَدٍ

someone

إِدْرَاكُ

realization

ذَلِكَ،

of that,

And if it is difficult for someone to realize that,

فَعَلَيْهِ

then upon him

أَنْ

is to

يَتَأَمَّلَ

contemplate

فِي

in

then he should contemplate in