مَجْلِسِassembly

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا اِنْفَصَلَ عَنْ مَجْلِسِ الذِّكْرِ،

  When he left the gathering of remembrance,

  مَجْلِسِ — gathering. This noun is in its head-of-pairing shape (no 'the', no tail-marking) because it owns the next word: 'the gathering of remembrance'. It sits in the genitive after the preposition and leans forward for definiteness.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• بُعْدُهُ مَجْلِسِ الشَّيْخِ الْفَقِيهِ الإِمَامِ الأَوْحَدِ،

  After him came the assembly of the sheikh, the jurist, the Unique Imam.

  مَجْلِسِ — assembly. A noun 'assembly/session', in the genitive form, set up as the head of a long possessive pairing with the string of titles that follows ('the assembly of the sheikh, the jurist...'). The genitive marks its place in that of-chain spelling out whose assembly it was.

  From: Public Preaching →

• فَلَوْ أَنْ أَبْرَعَ مَنْ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ

  If only the most eloquent person in the assembly...

  الْمَجْلِسِ — the assembly. A definite noun 'the assembly', in the genitive because the 'in' before it governs it. The al- makes it the specific gathering in view. It bounds the set of people the 'most eloquent' is drawn from, completing the supposition's frame.

  From: Public Preaching →