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Root: ش ط ن Words from this Root in the Grand Qur'aan: a) Total occurrences: 88 [85 occurrences for famous Devil and 3 occurrences as Cobra snake] b) No of constructions: 12
We find the following about this Root in the Classic Lexicons:- Ibne Faris [died 1005] (شطن) الشين والطاء والنون أصلٌ مطّرد صحيح يدلُّ على البُعد. والشَّطَن: الحَبْل. وهو القياس، لأنَّه بعيدُ ما بينَ الطَّرَفين. وَأمَّا الشَّيطان فقال قوم: هو من هذا الباب، والنون فيه أصليّة، فسُمِّي بذلك لبُعده عن الحقّ وتمرُّده. وذلك أنّ كلَّ عاتٍ متمرّدٍ من الجنّ والإنس والدوابّ شيطان وقيل إنّه أرادَ الحيّات: وذلك أنَّ الحيَّة تسمَّى شيطاناً Lisan al-`arab والشيطانُ: حَيَّةٌ له عُرْفٌ. Taj -al-`arus (و) الشيطانُ:(الحيَّةُ) و قِيل: نوعٌ من الحيّاتِ له عُرْفٌ قبيح المنْظر; و قيل: هي حيَّةٌ رقيقة خفيفة Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, based on the classical Arabic lexicons such as those above
The basic perception infolded in the Root is that of becoming something distant or remote. It is therefore primarily a relational word-Root since one thing gets distant and remote in relation to another thing. It is used to refer particularly to a long Rope perhaps with an understanding that its two ends are turned distant away from each other. It is used by Arabs to refer to a snake for reason that it turns distant away from men. It is also said that it is one species amongst snakes which is odious in view.
3. Cobra is also identified by
the name
The Grand Qur'aan has confirmed that the word:
In this Unitary Verbal Passage, the
Spathe
of a specific
plant named:
Spathe as a part of a plant is a well known object for human beings. It is also part of Date-Palm, well known to Arabs, who were the first listeners and readers of Qur'aan. Spathe of Date Palm has also some resemblance with the head/hood of Cobra.
Cobra Date Palm-Spathe Away from Arabian Peninsula, Men know about some plants, like Cobra Lilli, Japanese Cobra Lily, Arisaema nepenthoides-Eastern Himalayan species, that have spathe closely resembling hoods of Cobra.
Japanese Cobra Lily Arisaema nepenthoides Cobra Lilli
In view of the fact that the word:
There are certain spots,
termed oasis
in the deserts where water-spring is available immediately below the
surface. He was asked to prod at that point with his heel/foot whereupon the water emerged thereat.
This shows us the location
of incidence of suffering fatigue and pain;
he was
somewhere in a desert [not home].
In oasis, the
water table is just beneath the ground surface.
On emergence of water, it was described as:
What was the purpose of identifying to him the
availability of a cleansing location containing cool water just underneath
the surface of ground? He did the act of
prodding with his heel, the water came up which he saw and thereby it was
referred by the Demonstrative pronoun
The Cobra bite can be life threatening if preventive measures are delayed, particularly when the man is lonely in pain and distress. It was, therefore, emphasized upon Ayub alahissalam:
"And mind it, you should not desist-deviate [this given advice in quickly doing it]".
It seems
strange about those writers, otherwise
known as learned scholars, who preferred to depend upon conjectural
gossips of "oath of beating wife with hundred strokes" while translating
and explaining this Ayah/Unitary Verbal Passage of Qur'aan. Here such
writers, by their imaginative flight and under influence of irrational
and insulting
stories spread about the Elevated Messengers, "import into
desert" the object of
Verb
It is all the more strange that majority of writers also naively forgot that this episode is mentioned earlier too:
"It is a fact that I am in pain, the Physical Adversity has touched me" [Refer 21:83]
Whereupon We responded for him. Thereby/for reason We removed that with which he was in the state of pain and distress [by telling about washing water and treatment-38:42]. And [saving him from life threatening incident] We gave him-let him meet his family, and other like of family with them, for showing the mercy from Our Grace [to all of them]. [21:84] The Cobra bite to a person all alone in the midst of desert, can cost him life. He was saved after having experienced life threatening incident and went home. Not only his family is mentioned but also other persons who are like the members of family. It is understandable that the family and others having similarity of family members must be worried about his non arrival. The entire episode was reflection of the mercy of Allah the Exalted upon all of them that a man bitten by Cobra has come back safe and sound. This fact is again mentioned as parenthetic clause while describing the incidence
Please ponder how ridiculous was the story concocted by some earlier writers regarding "undertaking oath for beating his wife". It is stated that she came late when she was called by him. Thus, these so called scholars portrayed him as an exaggeratedly impatient person. On the contrary, Allah the Exalted discloses this observation about him:
It is a fact that We had found him coolly perseverant. What a remarkable sincere servant was he! It is a fact that he was ever mindful/heedfully returning [to Allah the Exalted]. [Refer 38:44] This is the observation of Allah the Exalted about him. Do you think [disregard for a moment what the scholars have been gossiping all along; apply your own mind to answer it] that a coolly perseverant, a remarkable praiseworthy person can become so impatient and emotional against his wife, deciding and taking oath to beat her with hundred lashes, merely because she did not attend him quickly when called? I know your answer. Therefore, start deleting from the memory all irrational, derogatory, non substantiated, irrational, conjectural stories. We must remember, that attributing any thing of little import or irrational and derogatory nature not becoming of the stature of elevated and dignified persons, the Elevated Messengers of Allah the Exalted, is a great slander and sin. Disregard the persons who might have attributed it.
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Verb:
Imperfect; third person; singular; masculine; Mood: Indicative [Form-V]; Suffixed Fronted Object pronoun, in accusative state;
مصدر-تَخَبُّطٌ
Verbal Noun. Form-V verbs have transformative meanings.
The basic perception conveyed by this state, as was mentioned by Ibne
Faris [died-1005] and Lane's Lexicon is tramping;
going or journeying without direction, or one who beats the ground with
his foot and know not in what land he is going; either because of the
darkness or because he is blind. It is a
confusion-directionless state. The subject of Verb causing this state
through physical touch/bite is
"the heads of the
Devil-".
Therefore, all such translations who ignored the
basic principle of exemplification denoted by
are
patently incorrect,
notwithstanding our
acknowledgement of their scholarly skills.
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[Passive Participle/Locative Noun]
a cleanser/cleansing
location.
.
He was asked to make use of this water for
cleansing
the wound to distance/flow away some venom to Earth.
Appositive/Conjunction particle. It links the following clause
with the verb
Verb:
Imperative; second person; masculine; singular; Subject pronoun hidden; مصدر-أَخْذٌ Verbal
noun. This act, meaning to hold/take, was to be done after prodding the
Earth, which resulted in emergence of water in the small ditch/well made
with heel/foot. 
Prepositional
+ Possessive Phrase relates to verb: بـِ Inseparable
preposition
+ Noun:
Definite;
masculine; singular; genitive + Possessive pronoun: Second person;
singular; masculine; in genitive state.
:
It is a singular accusative noun, and is
apparently the object of preceding verb
This Prepositional
Phrase relates to the preceding verb: بـِ Inseparable
preposition; Personal Pronoun: Third
person; singular; masculine referring back to handful/scoop of water
taken in his hand.
