Using rope to climb a date tree: photo courtesy: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=173140
Back ground:
Asbaab are the ways and means to reach a goal. They are not the goal itself just the methods used to reach it.
الْأَسْبَابَ ﴿٣٦﴾
the ways and means- 40:36
Sabab is the rope by which one climbs the date tree to get dates. This has become a part of the Arabic and urdu language and thus now describes “all the means to reach something” and is called Asbaab.
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