مُصِيبَاتِcalamities

Example sentences

• فِي الْمُصِيبَاتِ الَّتِي تَصِيبُنَا كَالْفَقْرِ وَالْمَرَضِ وَالْخَوْفِ

  Among the calamities that befall us are poverty, illness, and fear.

  المصائب — the calamities. The al- makes this 'the calamities' a defined class, a feminine plural, and governed by the 'among' before it, it sits in the genitive. It names the category the sentence draws its examples from, set up for the relative clause to follow.

  From: Patience Under Decree →

• وَمَا قُدِرَ مِنَ الْمُصِيبَاتِ يَجِبُ الاِسْتِسْلَامُ لَهُ

  One must accept whatever calamities have been decreed.

  الْمُصِيبَاتِ — the calamities. A definite feminine plural noun naming the calamities as a class, held in the genitive by the partitive preposition before it. Its plural shape is one of Arabic's 'broken' plurals, reshaping the singular internally rather than just adding an ending.

  From: Patience Under Decree →