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القرآن
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The Contact: making it, maintaining it, being in contact with

Established rule 5 examples 1 min

The root صلو is always rendered with "contact", but the construction decides the verb: the verb صلّى used alone is rendered "make contact"; the phrase أقام الصلاة is rendered "maintain the Contact"; the verb followed by على and a person is rendered "be in contact with".

Three constructions, three renderings, without exception.

The verb used alone states the act: the one who "remembers the name of his Guardian, and makes contact" (87:15); Zakariya, called "while he was making contact in the oratory" (3:39). The participle follows the verb: "those who make contact" (70:22, 107:4).

The phrase أقام الصلاة states duration: "And maintain the Contact" (2:43), with the capital of the noun.

With على and a person, the verb states the relation: "and be in contact with them" (9:103). The same construction, negated, forbids the relation: "And never be in contact with any of them who dies" (9:84). God Himself is "in contact" with the believers (33:43) and with the Prophet (33:56).

In the text

Example 87:15
وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ
“and remembers the name of his Guardian, and makes contact”
The verb alone: "make contact".
Example 2:43
وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتُوا۟ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱرْكَعُوا۟
“And maintain the Contact”
The phrase أقام الصلاة: "maintain the Contact".
Example 9:103
وَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِمْ
“and be in contact with them”
With على and a person: "be in contact with".
Example 9:84
وَلَا تُصَلِّ عَلَىٰٓ أَحَدٍۢ مِّنْهُم
“And never be in contact with any of them who dies”
The same construction, negated.
Example 3:39
وَهُوَ قَآئِمٌۭ يُصَلِّى
“while he was making contact in the oratory”
The verb alone, imperfective.

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