خَطَرٌa matter

Example sentences

• وَهُوَ بَعْدَ هَذَا وَاللَّهِ لَهُ نَبَأٌ عَظِيمٌ وَخَطَرٌ جَلِيلٌ

  And after this, by God, for him is a great report and a weighty, grave matter.

  وَخَطَرٌ — and a matter. Front wa- is the joiner 'and', adding a parallel item to the tiding. The indefinite noun it carries is a second thing 'he has', so the clause reads 'a great tiding and a weighty matter', the two linked by wa-.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →