أَلْفِa thousand

Example sentences

• وَقَلْبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ الْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَلْفِ أَلْفٍ مَرَّةٍ

  And the believer's heart is better than the Frequented House by more than a thousand thousand times.

  أَلْفِ — a thousand. A numeral ('a thousand') heading an 'of' pairing with the repeated numeral after it, in the genitive ending under the preceding 'than'. As the front of a numeral chain it leans on what follows to build the full count.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →