عِظَامbones

Example sentences

• فإن قيل فقد قال تعالى ﴿أَيَحْسَبُ الإِنْسَانُ أَلَّنْ نَجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُ بَلَى قَادِرِينَ عَلَى أَنْ نُسَوِّيَ بَنَانَهُ﴾

  Then if it is said, Allah, the Exalted, stated: 'Does man think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes, We are able to proportion his fingertips.'

  عِظَامَهُ — his bones. This is a noun with an attached pronoun on its end marking the possessor, so it means 'his bones'. Arabic glues the owner straight onto the back of the thing owned instead of using a separate possessive word, and the noun is the object of the gathering verb.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →

• وينسى أنه خلق من نطفة ثم من علقة، ثم صار مضغة، ثم صار عظامًا، ثم كسي لحما

  and forgets that he was created from a drop, then a clot, then a lump of flesh, then bones, then clothed with flesh.

  عِظَامًا — bones. The complement of 'became', with a bare indefinite ending: 'bones'. It is plural in form and takes the shape becoming-verbs require for the resulting state.

  From: A Path to Mercy →