What Is the Meaning of the Word “Excremement
In response to the suspicion and lie that the word “excrement” is an indecent and embarrassing word, what is the meaning of the word “excrement”?
Content of the Doubt
The enemies of Islam claim that the word (excrement) in the Qur’an is an obscene word!
Response to This Ridiculous Suspicion
First: The enemies of Islam are like a herd of buffalo who do not understand anything about the Arabic language. Whenever they find a word in the Qur’an, they attack it because of their ignorance of the meanings of Arabic words.
secondly:
The word “excrement” is not an embarrassing or disgusting word. Rather, God has chosen the best words to express human affairs. God often chooses metaphorical words instead of some realistic words that may sometimes offend modesty.
When we open the dictionaries of the Arabic language, we find that the word (al-ghayt) is derived from the verb (ghāt) , meaning (to disappear) . In the past, the Arab would go to a faraway place and disappear there for a period of time in order to relieve himself there.
The verb (ghat) is also used to mean to enter a valley, as in the past the Arab would enter a hidden place in the valley in order to relieve himself.
The word “Ghat” also means digging a hole.
The origin of the word (ghā’it) in the Arabic language means (valley) or (wide, low land) , and its direct meaning is not (shit) or (poop), as the foolish, ignorant atheists believe.
Since the Arabs of old used to go to a hidden valley to relieve themselves there, the Holy Quran used the word (ghā’it) as a gentle euphemism for defecation instead of using a direct, hurtful word.
That is why Ibn Abi Hatim said in his interpretation that the word “ghīt” means the valley.
★ Abu Al-Saud says in his interpretation:
[“Or one of you comes from the toilet” refers to a deep, secure place. Coming from it is a metaphor for the event, because it is customary for those who want to relieve themselves to go there to conceal themselves from people’s eyes. Attributing the occurrence of it to one of those addressed, rather than them, is to avoid explicitly attributing them to something that would be shameful or unacceptable to disclose.]
★ Al-Tahir Ibn Ashur says in his interpretation:
Al-Ghayt is the low part of the ground and that which is hidden from sight. It is said: “He went to the ground” if he disappeared, so its hamza is a change from the waw. When relieving oneself, the Arabs would go to a low place on the side of the neighborhood, far from their homes, and they would use a euphemism for it: they would say “he went to the ground” or “he defecated.” It was a subtle euphemism, and then people used it after that. So much so that it became equal to the truth and became acceptable, that the jurists began to apply it to the event itself and link it to actions that were appropriate for that.]
★ Al-Baghawi says in his interpretation:
[His Almighty saying: “Or one of you comes from the toilet,” meaning when he relieves himself. The toilet is a name for a flat part of the earth. It was the custom of the Arabs to go to the toilet to relieve themselves, so the toilet was referred to as the toilet.]
The same words were said by Ibn al-Jawzi , al-Sam’ani , al-Samarqandi , al-Baqa’i , Ibn Abi Zamanin , al-Nasafi , al-Baydawi , al-Iji , al-Shawkani , and Siddiq Hasan Khan in their commentaries.
★ Al-Mawardi said in his interpretation:
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[Al-Gha’it is the safe place on the ground where a person would come to relieve himself, so he used it as a metaphor for the outside world. Then its use became so widespread that it became almost literal. The evidence that Al-Gha’it is a literal name for a place, not an outside world, is the poet’s saying:
Didn’t you hear the story about me when I was in the bathroom asking for help?
You shouted in the toilet, you wicked person!
★ Al-Tha’labi said in his interpretation:
[﴿Or one of you comes from the toilet﴾…, and the toilet, the toilet, and the toilet all have the same meaning, which is the quiet, hidden part of the earth. Mujahid said: It is the valley. Al-Hasan: The valley of the valleys, and it is correct. The historian: A deep part of the earth surrounded and covered by vines, and the plural is toilets, and the verb from it is (ghāt yaghūt), like (‘aad ya’ūd). And he defecated, he defecated, if he came to the toilet, and they used to defecate there, so he used the toilet as a euphemism for talking like excrement and event, and here it is a euphemism for the need of the stomach]
★ Al-Tha’alibi said in his interpretation:
The origin of the word “ghā’it” is the lowered part of the ground, and then it became more commonly used for relieving oneself.
★ Makki bin Abi Talib said in his interpretation:
[And the word ‘ghay’ (excrement)’ means a wide area of the ground. It has also been said that it is a low, covered place, and this has become common, to the point that someone who has relieved himself is called a ‘defecater’. Abu Ubaidah said: “The root of ‘ghay’ (excrement)’ is a quiet place on the ground.”]
Ibn Atiyyah said in his interpretation:
The origin of the word “al-ghā’it” is a low part of the ground. The Arabs used to go to that type of place to relieve themselves, so it became widely used to refer to relieving oneself and became a common term.
★ Fakhr al-Din al-Razi said in his interpretation:
[His statement: “Or one of you comes from the toilet.” The toilet is a secure place on the ground, and its plural is “ghitan.” When a man wanted to relieve himself, he would seek out a place to defecate on the ground, concealing it from people’s eyes. Then the impurity was given this name, naming the thing after its place.]
★ Al-Alusi said in his interpretation:
[(Or one of you comes from the toilet) which is a low place… The toilet is the toilet, and coming from it is a metaphor for the impurity, because it is customary for whoever wants to do it to go there to hide his person from the eyes of the people.]
Al-Qasimi said the same thing in his interpretation.
So, the word (excrement) is not a hurtful word as the heretical atheists believe, but rather it is a word originally used to refer to the ground where people hide, and then the term was used as a gentle, indirect euphemism for defecation instead of using direct, indecent names.
By the way, we still use the same word in our lives today, especially in the countryside, when we say: [al-Ghayt and al-Ghaytan] .
Knowing that the words [al-ghit, al-ghut, and al-ghayt] all have the same meaning.
Then I am surprised by those who use terms like (bathroom) and (toilet) and then condemn the word (excrement) !!!
I am surprised at the atheists when they allow doctors to use terms like (urine and feces) and then they denounce the word (excrement) !!!
Third:
As for the Jews and Christians, their writers never hesitate to use words like: [feces, excrement, dung, and dung!]
Here are the texts of the Holy Bible yourself:
Deuteronomy 23:13
“And you shall have a stake with your tools to dig with when you sit outside, and come back and cover your excrement .”
- Zephaniah 1:17
“And I will afflict the people, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung .”
- 2 Kings 6:25
“And there was a severe famine in Samaria. And they besieged it, so that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter-cube of pigeon’s dung for five shekels of silver.”
- Ezekiel 4:12
“And you shall eat barley cakes with the dung that comes out of a man; you shall bake them before their eyes.”
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