and a specific reality, that interpretation is invalid in the Arabic language in which the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) addressed his community. Such usage is found only in the terminology of logicians and the like, when they say, “This is the sole individual of its species,” or, “This is not the sole individual of its species,” and, “A genus is divided into its species, and a species into its individuals,” and similar expressions in which the word “person” corresponds to “a particular individual.”

The origin of this—and Allah knows best—is that, since this division applied to what was manifest—namely, the human being—and every human being is called a “person,” they extended this term, through their specialized usage, to what is