Arabic vocabulary
مُصِيبَةًcalamity
How to say “calamity” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَىٰ ﴿مَا أَصَابَ مِنْ مُصِيبَةً إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَمَنْ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ يَهْدِيهِ قَلْبَهُ﴾
Allah, the Exalted, said: No calamity befalls except by Allah's permission, and whoever believes in Allah, He guides his heart.
مُصِيبَةً — calamity. This indefinite noun, in the genitive under the partitive 'of' before it, names the thing being negated, 'a calamity'. Within the 'no... of any' frame it generalizes to 'any calamity at all', the subject the negation sweeps over.
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