The Dalaalat Ul-amr ‘alaa At-tikraar (the Indication Of The Command Upon Repetition)
Does the command form (Seeghat ul-Amr) indicate the repetition of the action that has been commanded?
The command (Al-Amr) does not indicate Tikraar (repetition) because the Seeghat ul-Amr (command form) does not indicate except the Mutlaq (unrestricted) request of undertaking the action without notification of a single time or its repetition a number of times. Rather it is there to request the action alone. As such, the repetition of the action that has been commanded or its occurrence one time come from other Qaraa’in (connotations) and not merely the command by itself.
So for example Allah (swt) said:
The female fornicator (Zaaniyah) and the male fornicator (Zaaniy) lash each of them with one hundred lashes (An-Noor 2).
So the command for the occurrence of the lashing upon the fornicator is based upon the realisation of the Sabab (cause/reason) for the lashing. So every time the Sabab is repeated, which is the Zinaa (fornication), then the lashing is repeated.
Allah (swt) said:
O you who have believed, when you stand to (perform) prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles (Al-Maa’idah 6).
The command is ‘Ighsiloo’ (wash) and the repetition of the Salaah rests upon the explanation of the Messenger of Allah (saw) of the Qawl of Allah (And establish the Salaah) when he (saw) said:
Pray as you have seen me pray
Consequently, the repetition or absence of it does not come from the Seeghat ul-Amr (command form) itself but rather comes from another Qareenah (linking indication) that the Shar’iyah texts have guided to.