كَثِيرًاabundant

Example sentences

• ومن سُنَنِه التسميةُ، وتقديمُ اليُمنى على اليُسرى، والمُوالاةُ، وتخفيفُ التراب إذا كان كثيرًا، وألّا يُكَرِّر المسح

  Among its Sunnahs: saying 'Bismillah', preferring the right over the left, continuity, lightening the dust if it is excessive, and not repeating the wiping.

  كَثِيرًا — excessive. 'much / excessive,' in the -a form precisely because 'was' before it forces its predicate there. The lightening is recommended only when the dust is plentiful — this word sets that condition.

  From: The Practice of Earth Cleansing →

• تمشي كثيرًا وتضلُّ قليلًا في كل خطوة

  You walk much yet stray a little with every step.

  كَثِيرًا — a lot. 'much / a lot,' in the -a form working adverbially — measuring the walking. An indefinite accusative often becomes an adverb of degree; here, you walk A LOT — but to little purpose, as the next clause says.

  From: Purifying Your Intentions →

• وَلِهَذَا كَثِيرًا مَا يَعْمَلُونَ عَلَى الْأَحْوَالِ

  For this reason, they very often work on the spiritual states.

  كَثِيرًا — very. A noun in the object-style ending used adverbially to mean 'much/often'; it pairs with the following particle to build the frequency idiom 'very often'. Standing alone it would just intensify, but here it is half of a set phrase. It tells how frequently the action happens.

  From: Trust and Piety →

• وَكَثِيرًا مَا يَغْلِطُونَ

  And very often they make mistakes.

  كَثِيرًا — very often. A noun in the object-style ending used adverbially to mean 'much/often', forming half of the 'very often' frequency idiom with the following particle. It intensifies how frequently the action occurs. Read it together with the next word as one adverb.

  From: Trust and Piety →

• وَهَؤُلاَءِ كَثِيرًا مَا يَسْلِبُونَ أَحْوَالَهُمْ

  And these people very often lose their spiritual states.

  كَثِيرًا — very often. A noun in the object-style ending used adverbially, 'much/often', forming half of the 'very often' idiom with the following particle. It intensifies the frequency of the action. Read it together with the next word as one adverb.

  From: Trust and Piety →

• فَتَفَكَّرْتُ فَرَأَيْتُ كَثِيرًا مِنَ النَّاسِ فِي وُجُودِهِمْ كَالْعَدَمِ،

  I reflected and saw that many people, in their existence, are like nothingness.

  كثيرًا — many. An indefinite noun standing as the thing seen, so it takes the object-style ending. Used here as a quantity word, 'many', it leans forward onto the 'from the people' phrase that follows to specify many of what. The ending alone signals it is the verb's target, with no helper word.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →