مَصَائِبcalamities

Example sentences

• وَدفع المصائب عَنْهُم

  And averting calamities from them.

  الْمَصَائِبِ — calamities. A broken plural 'disasters', the owner completing 'the warding of calamities', genitive. What is pushed away from the servants.

  From: Humility Before the Divine →

• نعم لَا يَأْثَم صَاحبه إِذا لم يقْتَرن بحزنه محرم كَمَا يحزن على المصائب

  Yes, one does not sin for it if his sadness is not accompanied by something prohibited, as one grieves over calamities.

  الْمَصَائِبِ — the calamities. Definite plural noun, 'the calamities', governed by the preposition into the owned form. The 'the' marks the known category of disasters; it names what the grieving is over.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →