A small adendum to the previous post about love of language. To believers “šay” is even more brilliant since the Qur’an repeatedly reads “and he is over all things competent.”Things comes here from “kulli shay(in).” (Wa huwa ‘ala kulli shay’in qadeer)
So with this adab to start a sentence with “šay” can be understood as “although I know that the all-Mighty has already decreed the matter, ….” So šay in the sentence already delineates a philosophical anchor.
The Arabic تشرفتُ بكِ has as closest equivalent memnun oldum from turkish.
I hope this is a good day.
In Arabic you have the phrase ‘afwan – which can be used to respond to شكراً (shukran – “thanks”). ‘Afwan can also be used to apologise. If you bump into someone you can say ‘afwan.
So correct me if I am wrong but this phrase seems to be similar to Italian prego. Which I have heard is a very versatile word
In turkish “lütfen” is used as please, I think in the same vein that prego is used (e.g. in restaurants).
The Arabic ahlan wa sahlan (اهلاً و سهلاً) and “welcome” are both used as greetings to guests but “ahlan wa sahlan” seems deeper and more meaningfull. The same holds for لا which is deeper than the British “no.”
Edit:
اهلاً و سهلاً literally means something like: “among family and in ease.”
The only way that actions can be judged by their intentions is if the world of ‘aql عقل is more real than the world of matter. In Arabic this statement (the conditional) could not be made i.e. it does not translate since “realness” and haqqiyah (al-haqq conv. translated as “the Real”) do not perfectly allign.
In the words of Ned Flanders of the Simpsons: “I cannot live in good intentions.” Relating to an episode in which his house is destroyed and despite good intentions no substantial building occurs.
Not trying to expose Villeneuve but “lisan al ghaib” is “strange voice,” rather than “voice of the outer world.”
Edit: a Arabic transcript of voice of the outer world could be “lisan al-dar”
Kafara is the Arabic word describing “unbelief,” it is the noun form (form 1). It describes a state of mind of unreflectiveness and an unwillingness to take responsibility.
Serendipitously in the Dutch language you have a verb “kafferen” which has meanings of “to complain, to swear” which is interesting since Arabic is not one of the primary languages in Holland.
There are more cases like these and we will discuss them in time God-willing.