A new view of waqf in Arabic - a linguistic study

Abstract

Those who follow the books of the earlier linguists and grammarians will hardly find a book devoid of talking about endowments. But they limited their attention to endowments to the end of words, and the aspects that are permissible and which are not. Virtue given that it is suspended. And they knew that the endowment is achieved by two things: cutting the pronunciation, and the integrity of the relationship between what establishes the structure that occurred in it, so the second was the focus of their work and care.

But the grammarians’ concern for the aspects of the endowment, and the integrity of the structure in which it is located, was a help to the readers and others who were classified in the endowment. The purpose of the endowment was left to a people who were concerned with reciting the Qur’an, and for knowledge that was specific to the places that it is good or bad to stand on depending on the semantics, or based on grammatical functions, they started from the issue of meaning and its attachment to the word.