عَامَّةٌcommon people

Example sentences

• يَنَهَلُونَ مِنْ عِلْمِهِ وَوَعْظِهِ وَتَذْكِيرِهِ خَاصَّتَهُمْ وَعَامَّتَهُمْ،

  Both the elite and the common people drew from his knowledge, his preaching, and his reminders,

  وَعَامَّتَهُمْ — and their common people. A noun for the common folk, with 'their' attached and wa- joining it to the 'elite' noun before it. The two together form a span-the-whole-range pairing ('high and low alike'); the wa- here yokes the two halves of that set phrase, not a loose list.

  From: Public Preaching →