أَلْفٍa 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.

  أَلْفٍ — a thousand. The numeral 'thousand' repeated and stacked as the owner of the first, so the pairing multiplies into 'a thousand thousand' (a million). The doubling is a rhetorical way to pile up the figure into a vast, almost uncountable amount.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →