حَال condition in Arabic
حَال is how you say “condition” in Arabic.
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ثم أخبر سبحانه عن حال الانسان في يوم القيامة أنه غير ممتنع من عذاب الله لا بقوة منه ولا بقوة من خارج وهو الناصر
Then Allah informed that on the Day of Judgment, a human cannot protect himself from Allah's punishment, neither through his own strength nor through outside help.
حَالِ the state
A noun heading a possessive pairing with 'the human' after it: 'the state of the human'. It gives up its own article and takes definiteness from the owner that follows; its genitive ending comes from the preposition.
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ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان
The returning of the sky is the provision of good that comes from it from time to time over the ages.
حَالًا from time
A noun 'a state/condition' in the accusative as an adverb, paired with the next word in the idiom 'state after state', meaning bit by bit over time. The accusative ending is what casts the noun into this adverbial, time-spreading role.
ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان
The returning of the sky is the provision of good that comes from it from time to time over the ages.
حَالٍ time
The second 'state' in the idiom 'state after state', held in the genitive by the preceding 'after'. Its indefinite shape keeps the sense of one unspecified state following another, on and on.
كما أقسم في أول السورة على حال الانسان في مبدئه ومعاده
As He swore at the beginning of the surah regarding the human condition in its beginning and end.
حَالِ condition
A noun 'state/condition' that opens an 'of' pairing with the next word, held in the genitive by the preceding 'about'. As the possessed head it carries no 'the' of its own.
ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان ترجعه رجعًا أي تعطيه مرة بعد مرة
And the sky's return is the provision of good which comes from it continuously over time, returning repeatedly, meaning it gives repeatedly over and over.
حَالًا continuously
A noun 'a state' in the accusative as an adverb, paired with the next words in 'state after state', meaning bit by bit. The accusative ending casts it into this time-spreading role.
ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان ترجعه رجعًا أي تعطيه مرة بعد مرة
And the sky's return is the provision of good which comes from it continuously over time, returning repeatedly, meaning it gives repeatedly over and over.
حَالٍ time
The second 'state' in 'state after state', held in the genitive by the preceding 'after'. Its indefinite shape keeps the sense of one phase following another endlessly.
ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان ترجعه رجعًا أي تعطيه مرة بعد مرة
The return of the sky is the giving of good that comes from it, time after time, as it keeps returning — meaning it gives again and again.
حَالًا over time
This noun in the object-style ending functions as a circumstance word, describing the manner 'state after state', i.e. gradually. Arabic uses this object ending on a noun to express the how or in-what-condition of an action, where English would use an adverb or phrase.
ورجع السماء هو إعطاء الخير الذي يكون من جهتها حالًا بعد حال على مرور الأزمان ترجعه رجعًا أي تعطيه مرة بعد مرة
The return of the sky is the giving of good that comes from it, time after time, as it keeps returning — meaning it gives again and again.
حَالٍ another
This is the owner noun 'state' completing 'state after state', genitive after the preposition and indefinite. Repeating the same noun on both sides of 'after' is how Arabic conveys 'one after another', a continuous succession.
كما أقسم في أول السورة على حال الانسان في مبدئه ومعاده
Just as He swore at the beginning of the Surah concerning the state of humankind in their origin and return.
حَالِ the state of
This noun 'state/condition' is the front of an 'of' pair, 'the state of humankind', genitive after the preposition. It owns the noun after it and drops its own 'the', drawing definiteness from the owner that follows.
فترى الرجل في حال غضبه يتكلم بما يندم عليه إذا سكن غضبه، ويفعل ما يسيء إليه في دينه ودنياه
So you see a man, in his state of anger, speaking words he regrets when his anger subsides, and doing what harms him in his religion and worldly life.
حَالِ state of
This noun opens a possessive pair, 'state of his anger', linked straight to its owner with no word for 'of'. Governed by the preceding 'in', it sits in that form.
ولا ينظر إلى ما يؤول إليه حاله
and does not consider what his situation will lead to.
حَالُهُ his situation
This is the subject of 'comes to', placed after the verb, and the -hu on its end means 'his', linking the situation to the man. The whole stands in the subject case as the thing that arrives at an outcome.
فانظر أي الحالين تريد أن تكون عليه
So consider which of the two conditions you want to be in.
الْحَالَيْنِ of the two conditions
This is a dual noun meaning 'the two states', the completing half of 'which of the two states', so it carries the possessive case ending shaped for the dual. The dual is Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, folding the count into the word's ending where English needs the word 'two'.
ولو فهم معنى التوكل لعلم أنه لا ينافي استغاثته في تلك الحال،
If he understood the true meaning of trust in God, he would realize that it does not conflict with calling for help in such a situation.
الحَالِ situation
This noun is the circumstance pointed to, held in the governed form by the preceding 'in'. The 'the' makes it the definite, specific state of distress.
لَا يكون تَركهَا مَحْمُودًا فِي حَال وَاحِد وَإِن ارْتقى مقَامه
Abandoning them is not commendable in any situation, even if one's rank is elevated.
حَالٍ situation
Indefinite noun, 'a situation', governed by the preposition into the owned form. The indefinite marking keeps it open, any situation; it pairs with 'single' to mean 'any one situation'.
وَأَصْحَابُ هَذِهِ الْحَالِ أَنْوَاعٌ شَتَّى
And the people in this state are of many different kinds.
الْحَالَ the state
A definite noun in the genitive, the owner in 'people of this state', pointed to by the demonstrative before it. The 'of' link is made by adjacency, and this noun fixes which group is meant, those in this particular condition.
وَمَتَى رَأَيْتَ تَكْدِيرًا فِي حَالٍ،
And whenever you notice a disturbance in your state,
حَالٍ a state
An indefinite noun in the 'of'-style ending because the preposition before it governs it. Left indefinite, it means 'some state/condition', kept broad to cover any inner or outer situation. It completes the 'in a state' phrase that locates the noticed disturbance.
ثم نبه سبحانه الانسان على دليل المعاد بما يشاهده من حال مبدئه على طريقة القرآن في الاستدلال على المعاد بالمبدأ فقال ﴿فَلْيَنْظُرِ الإِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ﴾
Then Allah, glory be to Him, reminds mankind of the evidence of the Resurrection through what they observe of their own creation's beginning, following the Quranic method of using the creation's origin as evidence for the Resurrection. He says, 'So let man observe from what he was created.'
حَالِ condition of
The first noun of an 'of' pair, 'state', joining straight to the following noun with no separate 'of' and taking its definiteness from that owner; it also sits in the form the preceding preposition governs.