بَيْنَكُمْamong you

Example sentences

• وخف التعطيل فإنه إذا اعتقد آذى المشبهة عبدة الأصنام وإبراهيم يجعلهم جذاذا والمعطلة يدخلون بينكم ويتخللون ثم يتسللون منكم لواذا،

  And fear negation, for if it is believed, it harms those who liken, the worshippers of idols, and Ibrahim made them fragments. The deniers infiltrate among you, intermingle and then slip away from you unnoticed.

  بَيْنَكُمْ — among you. This word means 'between / among', behaving like a preposition, with the attached -kum 'you' as its object. It governs that pronoun and marks the midst of the group the deniers slip into, all in one word.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →

• فَاسْتَعْمِلُوهُ بَيْنَكُمْ

  So practice it among yourselves.

  بَيْنَكُمْ — between you. This is a 'between/among' preposition fused to a 'you-all' ending; it governs that pronoun into the genitive and sets the mutual scope: 'among yourselves'. One word does what English needs three for.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →