حِسَابarithmetic

Example sentences

• الحساب وشرع الديوان هذا من علوم القبط والفرس،

  Arithmetic and the system of the treasury are from the sciences of the Copts and Persians.

  الْحِسَابُ — arithmetic. This is 'arithmetic / accounting', the definite, nominative topic of a verbless sentence. It pairs with the coordinated noun next to form a two-part subject. The 'is' to its predicate is left unwritten.

  From: Intention in Islam →

• فقيل لي هذه أمتك، ومعهم سبعون ألفاً يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب

  And it was said to me: This is your nation, and with them are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without account or punishment.

  حِسَابٍ — account. Genitive after 'without', this is 'reckoning / account' — the thing they are spared. Its ending follows from the 'without' phrase. They enter with no audit of their deeds.

  From: Those Who Enter Without Account →

• فخاض الناس في أولئك الذين يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب،

  The people discussed those who will enter Paradise without account or punishment.

  حِسَابٍ — account. Genitive after 'without', this is 'reckoning' — the audit they escape. Its ending follows from the 'without' phrase.

  From: Those Who Enter Without Account →

• ثم ينسى البعث والحساب والميزان والصراط

  Then forgets the resurrection, the reckoning, the balance, and the path.

  وَالْحِسَابَ — the reckoning. Joined by 'and', a second object coordinated with the first, in the object form. Its 'the' marks the reckoning as a known event, the next item forgotten.

  From: A Path to Mercy →

• فيقال يا محمد أدخل من أمتك من لا حساب عليهم من الباب الأيمن من أبواب الجنة وهم شركاء الناس فيما سوى ذلك من الأبواب

  It will be said: "O Muhammad, admit into Paradise from your community those who will not be held accountable, through the right-hand gate of the gates of Paradise, and they will share with the people in what is beyond that from the other gates."

  حِسَابَ — held accountable. A noun in the object form built into a 'there is no X' negation: paired with the negator it means 'no reckoning'; the special ending is the mark this fixed negation pattern requires. It denies any reckoning for them.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →