All praise is due to Allāh alone, and may Allāh send blessings upon the one after whom there is no prophet, and upon his pure family, and all his Companions. To proceed, the one in need of his Lord's mercy, and captive of the stigma of his gold, Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʿĀbidīn, says: It has occurred to me to discuss some expressions commonly used among scholars, which have ambiguities in their grammatical structure or meaning, to untie the knot and clarify the discourse. I have named it: "The Marvelous Benefits in Parsing Strange Words." Allāh, the Exalted, is the One Whose help is sought, and upon Him is reliance.

"Halumma" means "come," and it is composed of the vocative particle "hāʾ" and "lummā," meaning: "join yourself to us," and it is used as a simple form. The singular and plural, as well as the masculine and feminine forms, are treated the same by the people of Hijaz, as mentioned in the "Qāmūs." The author of the "Ṣiḥāḥ" mentioned this before