Some grammarians and philologists believe that some words with reduced endings (majrūr) are not so on the basis of the rules applying to words with reduced ending; i.e., neither there is any of the letters of reduction prior to them nor have they been posed as annexed or as subordinate to a word with reduced ending. Thereby, such a word should have diacritics other than jarr but is read as majrūr (with reduced ending), and the reason for this diacritical mark is its proximity to a majrūr word. Due to the belief in the authenticity of proximity, some scholars have accordingly justified certain readings (qarā’āt) of the Holy Qur'an. In the present discussion, some instances in which proximity is claimed are dealt with and the scholars' views are studied and critically reviewed. As it will be clarified during the discussion, what the believers in proximity say does not seem to be so much as what they have imagined to be.
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