Sharh al-Ajurrumiyyah by Ibn Uthaymeen (شرح الآجرومية لابن عثيمين) — Page 281

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

وَالْفَرْقُ بَيْنَهُمَا أَنَّ التَّمَنِّيَ طَلَبُ مَا فِيهِ عُسْرٌ أَوْ تَعَذُّرٌ،

The difference between them is that wishing is the request for something that involves difficulty or impossibility.

فَقَوْلُ الشَّاعِرِ: أَلَا لَيْتَ الشَّبَابَ يَعُودُ يَوْمًا فَأُخْبِرَهُ بِمَا فَعَلَ الْمَشِيبُ

So the poet says: 'Oh, would that youth might return one day, so I could tell it what old age has done.'

هَذَا مُتَعَذِّرٌ، مَا يُمْكِنُ.

This is impossible; it cannot happen.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (12 verbs · 27 nouns)

• عَادَ — to return
• أَخْبَرَ — to inform
• فَعَلَ — to do
• فَرْقٌ — difference
• تَمَنٍّ — wish
• طَلَبٌ — request