الْجَمَالِbeauty

Example sentences

• قُلْتُ فَإِنْ كُفِيتَ ذَلِكَ وَدُعِيتَ إِلَى الْجَمَالِ وَالْمَالِ وَالشَرَفِ وَالْكَفَاءَةِ أَلا تُجِيبُ؟

  I said: If that would be enough, and you were asked for beauty, wealth, honor, and suitability, would you not answer?

  الْجَمَّالِ — beauty. A noun made definite by al- ('beauty'), the first item in the list, in the genitive because the preposition 'to' governs it. It begins the series of qualities the invitation points at.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →