عَلِيٌّAli

Example sentences

• وقال علي بن أبي طالب روحوا القلوب واطلبوا لها طرف الحكمة فإنها تمل كما تمل الأبدان

  Ali ibn Abi Talib said, 'Refresh the hearts and seek for them a portion of wisdom, for they get weary as bodies get weary.'

  عَلِيُّ — Ali. This is the doer of 'said', taking the -u subject ending. Here it begins a man's full name, so the words after it stack on as 'son of...' to identify him.

  From: Reviving the Heart →

• قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ هُوَ عَلِيٌّ

  I said, "No." He said, "He is Ali."

  عَلِيٌّ — Ali. A proper name serving as the predicate of the equational sentence, 'he is Ali'; placed after the subject pronoun with no 'is', it completes the identification. The naming itself is the statement.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• فَمَرَّ بِهِ عَلِيٌّ فَقَالَ

  Then Ali passed by him and said.

  عَلِيٌّ — Ali. A proper name standing as the subject doing the passing, its ending in the subject case, named after the verb that already carried a placeholder 'he'.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →