They said about..
this ant..
They said many things about it..
They said: It felt.. it initiated..
It felt the presence of..
our master; Suleiman!
and it took the initiative, by telling the others..
And, it called..
" "O ants.. " 27:18
And, It alerted..
Didn't it? Yes.
And it ordered..
".. enter.. "
And it prohibited..
".. you not be crushed.. "
And it confirmed..
".. you not be crushed[Yahtima-na-kum.. " by the letter; [na] that is for confirmation.
And, it advised..
And, it exaggerated..
Where in the verse?
".. all [-kum]..]; he will crush you all, without leaving anyone of you.
Yes..
And, it explained who..
It explained to them, who is going to crush them?
And, it warned..
And, it gave an excuse..
And, it denied.
It warned the ants.. and excused.. who?
It gave Suleiman an excuse; ".. while they perceive not."
Yes.
It has excused them.
Once more.. can I write these down?
This ant..
these words.. they are good!
It felt..
and it initiated..
and it called..
and it alerted..
and it ordered.. and prohibited..
and it confirmed..
and it advised..
and it exaggerated..
and it explained..
and it warned..
and it excused..
and it denied.
How many?.. 13.
One ant!
In fact, there are important points..
more important than this..
is the construction of the verse..
not about collecting all of these points..
But..
the structure of the text..
When we form a sentence..
we might add a number of points to it..
of this kind..
True.
any sentence can be formed of such points.
True.
But, how the syntax was made..
It said; "..' O ants.. " [Ya Ayuha An-Naml]
It didn't say; [Ya Naml]
What is the difference?
both are for calling them!
No, the way it called them, included an alerting..
[Ay-u-ha]?
Of course..
[ha].. is an article.. a tool for drawing attention.. Yes.
[Ay- ] is used to connect [Ya] which is a tool for calling.. with the thing that is called[ and it is usually defined by Al=the]
because, we want to call [The ants].. not [Ayuha].
What are we calling here?
The ants.
So, [Ay-] is only connecting.
True.
However, it is grammatically said to be the called word..
but, linguistically, it is needed to connect to the actual defined called word.
Why this specific syntax was used?
So that, if one ant was busy..
it didn't hear the call.. then it will hear later..
Because, if it said; O ants.
and one ant didn't hear, it wasn't paying attention..
It will miss the call!
Of course, this form is for drawing the attention..
This is the difference between saying; O [Ya] so-and-so.. and saying; O [Ya Ayuha] so-and-so
Yes.
Using[Ya].. or using [Ya Ayuha].
to draw attention.
Good.
".. enter.. "
The Subjects to whom it was talking is.. Second person pronoun.. as rational entities [plural and masculine].
Yes.
the talk was not to a single entity..
They were ants.
yet, it didn't talk to them as Feminine Subjects!
True.
So, it has talked to them as if they were rational entities [plural and masculine]..
Who would comprehend matters..
would understand..
would perceive the advise..
Then He said: ".. your dwellings.. "
i.e. each of them should enter its dwelling[Sakan]..
The word; [Sakan] is a lodging to reside safely and to relax.
not just to go to anyplace!
They have to enter inside their lodgings..
their dwellings.
where they should reside and stay.
So, has each of them its residing place?
It must be like that.
So, they are not going to be in a single hole.. in one place..
No.. No..
Evenmore, The Genitive construction.. adding to the Second person pronoun.. as rational entities [plural and masculine].
.. the pronoun; [Kum]
[your dwellings].. Exactly.
Next, Suleiman was mentioned with his Given name..
".. that you not be crushed by Solomon.. "
It didn't just describe him..
they were in an urgent situation..
What does this mean?
It knows they all know him.. without giving details..
and the ants have known him..
Because, he was the ruler of everything..
Beautiful..
This is how it is.
He was well known..
True.
So, that they would immediately move inside..
"..and his soldiers.. "
It didn't say: The soldiers![With [Al=The] for definition.]
But, with saying; His.. to define them.
What is the difference?
because, as a governor, he has more soielders.. more than any other governor!
Suleiman had many varied soldiers..
from birds.. etc.. He had many soldiers..
So, if it said; The soldiers.. this might mean; the men soldiers, only!
For example, the army.
Yes, but, Suleiman has many different soldiers.
"And gathered for Solomon were his soldiers of the jinn and men and birds.. " 27:17
They were so many..
Yes, from men and jinn.
Then, it said.. ".. while they perceive not.'."
So, it denied that they would perceive.. but, it didn't deny the knowledge.
It didn't say; while they know not.
Excuse me, were the soldiers here from men, Jinn and birds?
Whatever the Suleiman's soldiers.
If it said; The soldiers.. would this mean the men soldiers only?
Not necessarily.
But the soldiers of Suleiman were defined by attributing them to him.. to glorify him.
in addition to indicating their being many and varied.
"So [Solomon] smiled, amused at her speech.. " 27:19
This means, he has heard it..
He has heard it, and has understood its words to them.
We pronounce the word; [that you not be crushed] as;[La yahtimanakum] or [Layahtimankum]
[La yahtimanakum]
to indicate prohibition.. prevention.
to prohibit whom?
to prohibit the ants..
not to stay in this place, to avoid being crushed.. Yes.
people studying the miraculous science of Qur'an, they stop at this word; [Yahtimanakum].
because the body of ant is protected by.. exoskeleton.. of Chitin..
a hard material..
So, they will not just die, or pressed..
Sure..
The Chitin material..
will be crushed!
Subhan Allah.. The Great.