‘Tis the season… of worship, of course.
In honour of the blessed month of Rajab, here are two of the beautiful supplications from the treasure trove of the Ahlul Bayt (AS), inadequately rendered into English poetry.
May the Almighty accept all of the good deeds performed for His sake during this holy month.
One cool thing about the Arabic language is that you can take a base “root word” and extract derivative words with related meanings by plugging the letters of the root word into different templates, or “forms”.
I’m not going to get into the details about how this process works here; we can leave that to the linguists. Instead, I’m interested in exploring a specific question: in the Qur’ān, which root verb appears in the most derivative verb forms? In other words: of all the root verbs that appear in the Qur’ān, which one comes in the biggest variety of flavours?