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Arabic
Verb
جَعَلَ عَالِيَ الشَّيْءِ سَافِلَهُ • (jaʕala ʕāliya š-šayʔi sāfilahu)
- to turn upside down
609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:82:فَلَمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّنْ سِجِّيلٍ مَّنْضُودٍ- falammā jāʔa ʔamrunā jaʕalnā ʕāliyahā sāfilahā wa-ʔamṭarnā ʕalayhā ḥijāratan min sijjīlin manḍūdin
- So when Our command came, We made the highest part its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay.
- (idiomatic) to disrupt, to ruin, to corrupt, to destroy
1956, ʿAbbās Maḥmūd Al-ʿAqqād, “٦٠ نادرة”, in جحا الضاحك المضحك, Windsor, UK: Hindawi Foundation, published 2014, →ISBN, page 107:وَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ، فَبَنَى دَارًا تَتَّسِعُ لَهُ وَلِأَهْلِهِ، وَطَلَبَ مِنَ النَّجَّارِ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ خَشَبَ السُّقُوفِ عَلَى أَرْضِ الْحُجُرَات، وَيَجْعَلَ خَشَبَ الْأَرْضِ عَلَى السُّقُوفِ، فَرَاجَعَهُ النَّجَّارُ دَهِشًا وَلَمْ يَفْهَم مَا يَعْنِيهِ. قَالَ جُحَا: أَمَا عَلِمْتَ يَا هٰذَا أَنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ إِذَا دَخَلَتْ مَكَانًا جَعَلَتْ عَالِيَهُ سَافِلَهُ؟ اِقْلِب هٰذَا الْمَكَانَ الْآنَ يَعْتَدِلْ بَعْدَ الزَّوَاجِ.- waʔarāda ʔan yatazawwaja, fabanā dāran tattasiʕu lahu waliʔahlihi, waṭalaba mina n-najjāri ʔan yajʕala ḵašaba s-suqūfi ʕalā ʔarḍi l-ḥujurāt, wayajʕala ḵašaba l-ʔarḍi ʕalā s-suqūfi, farājaʕahu n-najjāru dahišan walam yafham mā yaʕnīhi. qāla juḥā: ʔamā ʕalimta yā hāḏā ʔanna l-marʔata ʔiḏā daḵalat makānan jaʕalat ʕāliyahu sāfilahu? iqlib hāḏā l-makāna l-ʔāna yaʕtadil baʕda z-zawāji.
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2017 January 7, “التدين المسيّس”, in Al-Khaleej:ما دخل الإسلام السياسي بلداً إلا جعل عاليه سافله ودمر أركانه، وخرب مؤسساته، وضرب طوائفه ومذاهبه ببعضها، وفكك وشائج وحدته الوطنية ونسيجه الاجتماعي.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)