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Now we'll do a little more on Lil Mutafifin. Let's deal with the word

Baffafat. This is a very interesting word of the Arabic language. To make the long story short

There's lots of things that can be said about it, but two main ideas

They would you know if you pour a bottle like if you're if somebody asks for juice or something and you're pouring

Or you're filling up a bottle like it's even better example. You're filling up a bottle with a faucet

Right, and you're waiting till it's goes to the top and if you get to the top and the part that

Stips spills over a little bit before you stop the faucet. That's actually called the Faf

Or when somebody's filling a bag of rice and they're filling it and filling it and filling it and filling it and then some of it

Spills over that's the Faf or I was with my kids at a pizza place today and because you know Ramadan's coming

So not as well to eat fat food, but anyway, so but anyway, so we're pouring some some garlic astaghfirullah and you know

The sprinkle has some some some grains on top. That's called the Faf the stuff on top

Okay, now the word Mutafif taffafah means to take a little extra on the top

To have some extra or to remove some extra from the top just a little bit and the idea of tatsfif because it taffafah the fat

Ala form for the Arabic students here when you say things like qashshara in the Arabic language or qadda or

Qarrada these are words in which you don't enhance, but you also decrease in other words taffafah could mean to take a little extra

Or to give a little extra as one of those two things okay to give a little extra to take a little extra now

How does this work? It actually is if I prefer to imagine an ancient

Store or ancient you know grocer who sells flour who sells rice

And somebody gives him a bag fill this rice for me and he's gonna charge by the bag right so when the

Back fills up he has this kind of you know knife looking thing

It's flat and he scrapes it off the top so he can close it right and

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