وَالْبَرْدِand the cold

Example sentences

• فَكَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَصْبِرُ عَلَى مُكَابَدَةِ قِيَامِ اللَّيْلِ فِي الْحَرِّ وَالْبَرْدِ

  Many people endure the hardship of standing in prayer at night in heat and cold.

  وَالْبَرْدِ — and the cold. Here wa- joins two matched opposites, 'heat' and 'cold', as a tight pair under the same preposition. This is the wa- of pairing rather than a loose list, binding the two conditions into one 'heat-and-cold' span. The noun stays definite and in the genitive like its partner.

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