بَنِينchildren

Example sentences

• والبنين وكم صغر قاسى الأب لأجل الصغار، فلما ترقوا فعقوا والعقوق من الذنوب الكبار،

  And the children, how much hardship the father endures for the sake of the young; but when they grow up, they disobey, and disobedience is among the grave sins,

  وَالْبَنِينَ — And the children. The 'and' opens a fresh item in the running catalogue, tying it to the earlier list and keeping it in the accusative reached back to those items. It names the children as the next worldly attachment, picking up the thread of things people cherish.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →