JazakAllah...?

[DanyalSAC]

When I was a new(er) Muslim I heard many of my brothers say "JazakAllah Khairn" (pardon the English spelling). When I asked one of our shuyuk what it means, he told me it means "May Allah reward you for the good". He also said that I would often hear people say just "JazakAllah" without completing the sentence. He said "this is...kind of a lazy way of saying it and its not correct".

Recently on Facebook someone replied to a brother's thread with "JazakAllah" and another brother corrected him saying the very same thing the shaykh had said, "This is not a complete sentence and in disrespectful" and then he posted the whole formula, "JazakAllah Khairn".

Now I am not a native Arabic speaker and neither is he (though the shaykh mentioned in the first paragraph is). Is this true?

JazakAllah KHAIRN in advance!
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[DanyalSAC]

Yes. I actually mentioned that twice in previous posts. Jazaaka Allaah means "May God recompense you." Problem is the compensation can be good or bad! So, the sentence is ambiguous. When you add "Kahyran", which means "with good" then the sentence is complete.

Thank you. I kinda suspected that. Not to be critical, but it seems the shorter way is fairly common on this board.

 

[Fatima S.Ar]

We have already clarified it here :

http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63373

See the reply NO. 29

It's not a perfect sentence " Jazaka Allahu " .

 

[rightpath_357]

Nice!!!!! I didn't know that-lol.
I'm sure it wouldn't kill people to say another syllable or type another letter:lol:

JazakAllah Khairan!!!!