فَنَاءannihilation

Example sentences

• هُوَ الشوق مدلولا على مقتل الفنا

  It is longing, guided to the death of annihilation.

  الْفَنَاءِ — of annihilation. A verbal noun 'passing-away / self-effacement', the owner completing 'the slaying-ground of annihilation', genitive, definite. The mystic's self-extinction, toward which longing leads.

  From: The Path to God's Love →

• وكتب لفناء ساكنيها عمرًا مقدرًا وميقاتا،

  And He decreed a lifespan and an appointed time for the demise of its inhabitants,

  لِفَنَاءِ — for the demise. The 'for' prefix is a preposition forcing the genitive, and the noun it governs heads a possessive pairing, 'for the perishing of its dwellers'. So it both marks the purpose of the decree and opens the 'of' link completed by the next word.

  From: Death and Decree →