Meezan Us Sarf

Meezan Us Sarf is the basic Arabic grammar book known as mother of Arabic language.It is actually written in persian.
It is a must learning book for learning Arabic language.
It is often translated as morphology.
The actual meaning of sarf is the metamorphosing or changing of the asl (base/root word) to many different examples so as to achieve meanings that could not otherwise be achieved The science of sarf is mostly relegated to verbs and that which derives from them.
This change is done to stretch the meaning and to also make pronunciation easy upon the toque.
An example of changing the meaning through sarf is manipulating the verb nasara.
From nasara we may derive the following: Nasara Nassara Naasara tanaasara anassara istansara mansar naasir munasar mansoor .
All of these words come from one root verb - nasara.
As for making it easy upon the tonque I will provide one example.
Let us take the word scale in Arabic.
It is called meezaan.
This word comes from the root verb wazana which means to weigh.
According to a principle of sarf the thing which is used to do this action will sound like mifaal.
If we were to apply this principle here the item used for the act of weighing would be meewzaan.
Due to the difficulty found in pronouncing that upon the tonque we replace the waw with a yaa to make it easier.
This simplification is broken down into set principles known in sarf.
Properly applying principles of sarf can sometimes spell the difference between imaan and kufr.
For example Allah said about himself in the Quran that he is al-musaawir-the fashioner.
If someone was to pronounce the waw with a fathah instead of a kasrah the word would mean al-musaawar-the fashioned one (the one fashioned by another).
Of course the ignorant one making this mistake would be excused but this simply shows you the importance of sarf in the Arabic language.

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