دَعْوَةٌa supplication

Example sentences

• فيقول إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإنه قد كانت لي دعوة دعوت بها على قومي،

  He says, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and indeed there was for me a supplication which I invoked against my people,"

  دَعْوَةٌ — a supplication. An indefinite noun (carrying the -un tanwin, not al-) that is the thing said to exist, the subject of the 'there was' verb. Its nominative ending marks it as that subject, and its indefiniteness presents the supplication as one particular, unnamed prayer.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →