حَالَcome between

Example sentences

• فقال نعم، ومن يحول بينه وبين التوبة؟

  He said, 'Yes, and who can prevent him from repentance?'

  يَحُولُ — can prevent. A present verb 'comes between / bars', hollow (its weak middle letter collapses). It pairs with a doubled 'between... and between' to mean 'stand between someone and a thing' = 'keep them from it'. Subject 'who' is understood from the question.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فقال له الوزير كيف حالك؟

  The minister said to him: How are you?

  حَالُكَ — your state. A noun, 'your state', with the addressee's 'your' attached as a suffix, forming the body of the verbless question 'how is your state?'. Arabic needs no 'is' here; the question-word and the noun alone make the sentence.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• لِكَثْرَةِ دَوْرِ ذَلِكَ فَتَرَاهُ إِمَّا يَكْتُبُ الأَسْمَاءَ حَالَ السَّمَاعِ ،

  Because that happens so often, you will then see him either write the names at the moment of hearing.

  حَالَ — at the moment of. A time-noun meaning 'at the moment of / during', used adverbially in the accusative and heading a possessive chain with the next word. It sets up 'at the time of hearing', the following noun naming the moment.

  From: Humility Over Fame →

• فَارْتَقَى بِي الْحَالَ حَتَّى صَارَ إِبْلِيسُ مِنْ جُنْدِيَّ

  My condition rose so high that Iblis became one of my soldiers.

  الْحَالَ — the condition. A definite noun with al- ('the'), naming the speaker's condition or standing. It is the thing said to rise in the clause, and its definiteness frames it as a specific, known situation rather than any general state.

  From: Three States of the Heart →