Ayatollah Zarmohammadi

Abstract

Grammatical rules in every language have a decisive role in understanding that ‎language. Meanwhile Arabic is one of the most exact and delicate languages in ‎which the role of the morphological and syntactical rules is of paramount ‎importance. Among the syntactical issues it seems that "Afa'l of Determination" ‎has not been sufficiently assayed and in most cases it has been confused with ‎‎"Afa'l of Comparison"; while the first term is focused on determination and ‎specification but the latter one is an expression of comparison and preference. ‎The necessity of discussing this issue becomes more urgent when we turn to ‎sacred texts and confuse these two terms with each other. In the current essay ‎with an analytic method and via citation of first hand texts, we seek to explain ‎the difference between these two in order to show that in Afa'l of Determination, ‎we are encountered with a specified object but in Afa'l of Comparison, we are ‎dealing with two categories one of which is preferred as against the other‎‎‎.