INTERESTING READ If you want Jannah, stop saying Wallah by Musa Cerantonio 03/11/1435 / 29/08/2014 Once while living in Egypt I met a brother who was of good character, educated in the Shariah and sincere, however he had the habit of constantly saying wallāhi which is essentially an oath which one makes in Gods Name. I advised the brother to stop saying it so much and explained the reasoning why it is not good to do so. He agreed with what I said and was thankful, and then commented on what I had just said by responding Wallāhi you are right! The humour of it was not lost on him as soon as he realised that he had just repeated the same word that I had advised him not to say, and for the next few minutes we laughed about the irony of it all, but this experience shows that for many there exists a serious problem that is sometimes ignored despite the serious danger that it poses to many believers. I hope to elucidate the reality of this word and its implications on those who constantly use it. The meaning of The word wallāhi is comprised of 2 parts, the suffix wa- and Allāh. The suffix wa- can be used in 2 different ways, it can mean and or it can mean by. The way in which the context is understood is by looking at the ending of the word that follows it, if it ends with an i then it the wa- means by, if it ends with a u or an a then the wa- means and. For example if I say wallāhu alam (وَاللهُ أَعلَمُ) then it means and Allah is more knowing as the wa- here is identified as meaning and since the word following it (Allah) ends with a u. If the word following wa- ends with an i, such as in wallāhi (وَاللهِ) then it means by Allah. Due to the rules of spoken Arabic, if a word appears at the end of a sentence then the last vowel is not spoken and this is why it is common to hear a person saying wallāh in which the last vowel is not said, even though it is included in the written language. Therefore it is incorrect to say wallah in the middle of a sentence while speaking in Arabic, rather if it is in the middle of a sentence one should say wallāhi, however in many Arabic dialects today this is not observed and it is entirely common to hear the term being used incorrectly, however the meaning and intention of the word is still understood.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:14:53 +0000
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