مَلَكangel

Example sentences

• فقال رسول الله والذي نفسي بيده لو تدومون على ما تكونون عندي وفي الذكر لصافحتكم الملائكة على فرشكم وفي طرقكم، ولكن يا حنظلة ساعة وساعة ثلاث مرات،

  The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, if you remained in the state that you are with me and in remembrance, the angels would shake hands with you in your beds and on your paths. But, O Hanzala, a time and a time.' He repeated this three times.

  الْمَلَائِكَةُ — the angels. This is the subject of 'would shake hands', landing after the verb — 'the angels'. Being a non-human plural, it is the reason that verb showed up feminine-singular. Its nominative ending marks the doer.

  From: Devotion and Daily Life →

• قال يقول ملك من الملائكة

  He said: An angel among the angels says:

  مَلَكٌ — an angel. This is the subject of 'says', 'an angel', nominative and indefinite — one of the gathering. The partitive phrase next places him among the angels.

  From: Where Angels Gather →

• وكل الله بِهِ ملكا يذود عَنهُ شَرّ الشَّيْطَان

  Allah appoints an angel for him to ward off the evil of Satan.

  مَلَكًا — an angel. This noun is the thing appointed, so it sits in the object (receiving) form, and its ending marks it as indefinite, an unspecified angel. Arabic shows 'an angel' by the bare ending alone, with no separate word for 'a'.

  From: Ten Daily Supplications →

• فَكيف لَا يسلم المستعيذ بِاللَّه من الشَّيْطَان وَالْملك يذود عَنهُ بِأَمْر الْملك الديَّان

  So how can the one who seeks refuge with Allah not be safe from Satan, while the angel wards him off by the command of the Sovereign, the Just?

  وَالمَلَكُ — while the angel. The opening particle here sets up a side-by-side circumstance, 'while...', and the following noun is the subject of that simultaneous scene. The 'the' marks the specific angel already mentioned.

  From: Ten Daily Supplications →