Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Proof 1:
The word Āl in itself is suggestive of this meaning. It is derived from the verb
Āla Yaʾūlu which means to return; and the point of return for all followers is the
person they follow due to him being their leader and source of refuge. 1 Consider
the following verse:
أَدْ‏ خِ‏ لُوْ‏ ا أ ٰ لَ‏ فِرْ‏ عَ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ أَشَ‏ داَّ‏ الْعَ‏ ذَ‏ ابِ‏
Make the Āl of Pharaoh enter the severest punishment. 2
The intended meaning here is his army and his followers. 3
Likewise consider the following poem:
وانصر على آل الصليب
وعابديه اليوم آلك
And help against the followers of the cross and its worshipers today your followers. 4
Obviously the intended meaning here is followers as well.
The answer to this proof is the following:
The point of dispute is not that ‘followers’ is one of the meanings of the word Āl
in terms of language, nor is it regarding it referring to this meaning as per the
context it appears in and as per the suggestions of language. The dispute is rather
regarding deeming this particular meaning to be the only intended meaning in
all the texts, and that is unacceptable.
1 Jilāʾ al-Afhām p. 220
2 Sūrah Ghāfir: 46.
3 Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī 24/71; Daqāʾiq al-Tafsīr 2/255; Tafsīr al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ 1/350; Jilāʾ al-Afhām p. 220.
4 The poem of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of Nabī H. See: al-Rawḍ al-Unuf 1/122; Maʿālim
al-Tanzīl 4/526; al-Jāmiʿ li Aḥkām al-Qurʾān 1/383; Jilāʾ al-Afhām p. 206; Hamaʿ al-Hawāmiʿ 2/516
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