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The verb "qala" (to say) is conjugated as "qultu lahu" (I said to him). "Akala" (to eat) is either "yakulu" (he eats) or "akil" (eat!). "Kharaja" (to go out) means "akhrajtuhu" (I made him go out). Thus, verbs cannot be conjugated as they can in Arabic. Therefore, its understanding is limited. This cunning observation is that the rules of the French language, its art of word composition, writing, and reading, are called "akhar ma yabqa" (the last thing that remains), with a hamza, a sukun on the mim, a fatha on the ra, a shadda on the mim, a kasra on the ta, a fatha on the qa, and finally "mirr" with a shadda on the mim, according to the French. It means the art of composing speech from a language. Of the languages, so it is as if he is saying the art of grammar. It includes all that relates to the language, just as you say we have the Arabic sciences, and twelve sciences were added to them, collected in the saying of our sheikh, Al-Mi'tar: grammar, morphology, prosody, rhetoric, derivation, poetry, composition, semantics, rhetoric, calligraphy, rhyme, history. This is not for the Arabs. Sensation. And some of them added "al-badi'" (rhetoric), and others approved of adding "al-tajwid" (recitation). In short, the door of addition and subtraction is open in it. If it is limited and divided, then it is the mountain of Al-Ahsari. And it appears that these sciences are worthy of being called discussions of the Arabic science only. So how can poetry, qira'at, and rhyme each be an independent science in itself? And how can grammar, morphology, and derivation each be an independent science in itself? And look at what is meant by history and its being an Arabic science, when the first to compile a science in it was the Greeks, and the first thing that appeared in this art was the books of Euhemerus, in reality, Troy. And the Arabs did not compile anything in it except in recent times. And calligraphy is also ancient. So the Franks include these discussions in the art of composing speech, and they even exclude logic, semantics, and debate from it. Then, much of the French language is from African languages. It has its own special convention, and its grammar, morphology, prosody, rhymes, rhetoric, calligraphy, composition, and semantics are based on it. And this is what is called "akhar ma yabqa". Therefore, among all languages with rules, there is a distinction.

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