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Semantics (2)

Course Description: This course covers sections on the indication of a word to its meaning in terms of the type of request, and in terms of clarity and obscurity, and what relates to interpretation and its conditions and types, and clarification, and its methods, and rulings.

Credit hours: 3

Prerequisites: ISF 247

Objectives of the course :

a. The student knows the reality of commands and prohibitions, their forms, and their indications.
b. The student will be able to distinguish between the explicit text, the implicit text, and the general text, and the rulings associated with each.
c. The student should know the correct interpretation, its conditions, and its types.
The student should know the reality of rhetoric, its methods, and its issues.
h. The student can apply word meanings in texts.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- The student knows the reality of commands and prohibitions, their forms, and their implications.
2. That the student mentions the indication of prohibition alone, without context, on permissibility, immediacy, repetition, and the prohibition implying invalidity.
The student will list the divisions of word meaning in terms of clarity and obscurity. .
4. The student should explain the reality of the statement, the difference between the statement and what clarifies it, and the methods by which clarification is achieved. .
Skills:
The student can grasp the meanings of commands and prohibitions.
2. The student will be able to compare the reality of the text, its apparent meaning, and its summarized meaning, and distinguish between them.
3. The student distinguishes between correct interpretation and weak interpretation.
4. The student is able to perceive the truth of the statement and its rulings.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
The student commits to Islamic values and standards. .
2. To know how to deal in group situations, make decisions, and solve problems.
3- The student should be able to deal with information sources and their analysis tools, weigh judgments and opinions, and adopt the correct option among multiple choices.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
First: The categories of the indication of a word on its meaning in terms of the type of request.
The truth of the matter.
2. State whether the command has a specific format.
3. Imperative Forms, and Explanation of Meanings Where the Form "If'al" is Used.
4. The implication of an absolute command for obligation and otherwise, and the clarification of the types of contextual clues that divert it from obligation.
5. The significance of an unconditional command in terms of repetition or lack thereof.
6. The implication of a command devoid of contextual clues regarding its immediacy or lack thereof.
7. The indication of the command after the prohibition.
8. The requirement of the matter is sufficiency by doing what was commanded.
Is commanding something a prohibition of its opposite, and its inverse?.
10. Commanding the command of a thing.
11. Will the command of Allah to His Prophet, peace be upon him, be shared by his Ummah?.
12. The Reality of Prohibition.
13. Forms of Prohibition and the Meanings Conveyed by the Prohibition Form.
14. The difference between an imperative and a prohibition.
15. The implication of a prohibition devoid of contextual clues regarding its obligation, imminence, and repetition.
16. The implication of prohibition on validity:
17. Statement of the meaning of the issue, and clarification of the point of contention
18. The states of prohibition in detail, with examples for each state, and the scholars' opinions on each state.
19. Applying what the student has learned about the connotations of commands and prohibitions to Islamic texts.
Secondly: The categories of the indication of a word on its meaning in terms of clarity and obscurity.
1. The truth of the text and a statement of its ruling.
2. The reality of the apparent, and clarification of its ruling
3. The Meaning of Interpretation.
4. Conditions for Correct Interpretation.
5. Types of Interpretation: Close and Distant, Acceptable and Rejected, and Examples Thereof.
6. The reality of the summary and its ruling.
7. Reasons for generalization, and their examples.
8. Texts whose general meaning is disputed.
9. The impact of textual semantics, explicit and implicit meanings, and interpretation on the exegesis of texts, and its jurisprudential applications, old and new.
Third: The meaning of Al-Bayan and its rulings.
1. The reality of the statement, and the difference between the statement, the clarifier, and the clarified.
2. Methods by which statements are obtained.
3. The rule: “Every restriction from the legislator is an explanation.”.
4. The ruling on delaying clarification in detail.
5. Applying what the student has learned in the declaration to jurisprudential branches and new issues.

Last updated: 2026-05-04