A Hidden Truth

A Hidden Truth
ajiba. Now it is clearly evident that by raising an invalid
objection, which is proof of the Sheikh’s utter lack of
knowledge and ignorance, he has with his own hands
completely exposed himself before the learned and
proved to every friend and foe that he is a Maulvi only
in name and is bereft of the knowledge of Arabic. There
can be no greater humiliation for a person who calls
himself a Maulvi than to be bereft of the qualities of true
religious divines. What a shame that he is hitherto
unaware that the verb ajiba is at times followed by the
preposition min and at times by lam. Even a child who
has studied up to Hidayat-un-Nahw knows that like
min, the preposition lam is accepted usage in the view of
experts in syntax. Therefore, in support of this usage,
one couplet that is cited is as follows
‏ِجبْتُ‏ لَِمْولُْودٍ‏ لَيْس لَهُ‏ أَ‏ ‏ٌب
عَ‏
‏ْي
‏ْن ذِ‏
لَيْس لَهُ‏ ‏َولَ‏ ‏ٍد ‏َومِ‏
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و ا ‏ِن
َ أَبََ‏
Here, the poet has used both the prepositions lam and
min. On pages, 19, 390, 411, 475, and 511 of Diwan-e-
Hamasah, which is part of the curriculum at state
colleges, and the eloquence and rhetoric of which is
established and accepted, there are five couplets of Jafar
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I am amazed at this child who has no father,
And also at the father, who had no parents. [Publisher]
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