أَوْلِيَاءallies

Example sentences

• وَنَصره لأوليائه

  And His support for His allies.

  لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ — for His allies. 'Li-' (for) fused with a broken plural 'close friends / allies' plus '-hi' (His) attached, genitive — those the help is given to. The 'li-' marks the beneficiaries, God's devoted friends.

  From: Humility Before the Divine →

• وكان رحمه الله أحد المتقين، ومن أولياء الله الصديقين

  and may Allah have mercy on him, he was one of the pious and among the true friends of Allah.

  أَوْلِيَاءِ — the friends. This noun is the group he belonged among, held in the governed form by 'among', and it heads an 'of' pairing, 'friends of Allah'. As the chain's front it carries no 'the'.

  From: Raised in the Prophet’s Household →

• لمّا نظرتَ في كتاب حلية الأولياء لأبي نعيم الأصبهاني أعجبك ذكر الصالحين والأخيار،

  When you looked into the book 'Adornment of the Saints' by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, you were impressed by the mention of the righteous and the virtuous.

  الأَوْلِيَاءِ — of the Saints. A definite noun, 'the Saints', the final owner closing the chain 'book of the Adornment of the Saints'. It carries the owned-by ending and supplies the definiteness that flows back up the whole stacked pairing.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →

• فَإِنْ ظَنَّ مَعَ ذُلِّكَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ خَوَاصِّ أَوْلِيَاءِ اللَّهِ وَأَهْلِ المَعْرِفَةِ وَالتَّحْقِيقِ

  If, even so, he believes that he is among the select friends of God and among the people of knowledge and realization.

  أَوْلِيَاءِ — friends of. A plural noun 'friends/allies' that is both the completion of one possessive link and the head of the next, 'friends of God'. It sits in the genitive and chains two ownership relations together.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• وَيُوَالِي أَوْلِيَاءَهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْمُتَّقِينَ وََيُعَادِي أَعْدَاءَهُ

  He befriends his allies, the believers and the God-fearing, and he is hostile to his enemies.

  أَوْلِيَاءَهُ — his allies. A plural noun 'his allies' with 'his' fused onto its end, the object of 'befriends'. The suffix gives the possessive directly, and the noun is followed by appositive nouns that further describe these allies.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• وَعَرَضَ لِي نَفْسَهُ وَدَعَانِي إِلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَسْرَعُ شَيْءٍ إِلَى نُصْرَةِ أَوْلِيَائِي،

  He showed himself to me and invited me to it, and I am the quickest to come to the aid of my allies.

  أَوْلِيَائِي — my allies. This is a plural noun with -i, the 'my' possessor, fused to its end, so one word means 'my allies'. It is the owning half of the 'aid of my allies' pairing, making the whole phrase specific. The possessor ties the allies to the speaker.

  From: Under God's Shield →