[Machine] The letters are twenty-eight letters, so whatever is cut from the tongue is based on what is lacking from the letters. It was narrated from Masrouq that he said about the tongue of the deaf and mute: "It is a form of governance."
الْحُرُوفُ ثَمَانِيَةٌ وَعِشْرُونَ حَرْفًا فَمَا قُطِعَ مِنَ اللِّسَانِ فَهُوَ عَلَى مَا نَقَصَ مِنَ الْحُرُوفِ وَرُوِيَ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي لِسَانِ الْأَخْرَسِ حُكُومَةٌ