بُدٌّavoiding

Example sentences

• وإذا كانت جميع الحسنات لا بد فيها من شيئين

  And if all good deeds must include two things:

  بُدَّ — must. Literally 'no avoiding', this noun sits in the accusative with no tanwin under the 'no' of absolute denial — the pairing means 'there is no way around it', i.e. it is unavoidable. That accusative-without-tanwin shape is the grammatical signature of this 'there is none at all' pattern.

  From: Deeds for God Alone →

• فَإِذَا لَا بُدَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

  If that is unavoidable.

  بُدَّ — necessity. The noun in the fixed expression 'there is no way out', held in the object case by the absolute 'no' before it. The pairing yields 'unavoidable', a meaning that lives in the idiom rather than in either word alone.

  From: Silence and Supplication →