Speaker's Ya in grammar lesson

Abstract

Praise be to God, and prayers and peace upon the Messenger of God. To proceed: Despite the fact that the "ya' al-mutakallim" (the first person singular possessive pronoun) is present in most grammar books, I have not found, until now, an independent study or a precise definition of its meaning – according to what has been available to me. Rather, it comes scattered, even within the same book; sometimes some of it is studied with pronouns, other times with accusatives, other times with genitives, and other times with indeclinable words, etc. Therefore, I will address this topic with a grammatical discussion in successive points, taking some by others. Moreover, the problem (the research point) is the ambiguity that surrounds the topic, and because the grammarians' words are intertwined and lack organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is not deletion or addition, but rather collection, coordination, and facilitation in presenting, discussing, and offering the material to the reader. This work has focused on tracing the grammatical rulings issued by grammarians and Quranic readers during their treatment of the rulings of the "ya' al-mutakallim," such as permissibility, prohibition, disagreement among them, and the like. The importance of this study lies in its support for grammatical rules, as the "ya' al-mutakallim" has no linguistic meaning except through the science of grammar, as it is the one that clarifies its meaning, and it is the one that extracts its purposes. Grammar is a standard and measure of speech that clarifies its deficiency, preponderance, correctness, and weakness, and its source never runs out, nor is there an end to its purpose.