دَرَكconsequence

Example sentences

• وقتل بوجودي حسادي ولا درك،

  And He destroyed my enviers by my existence, with no blame upon me.

  دَرَكٌ — consequence. This noun stands as the subject of a sentence that has no verb at all. Arabic freely makes statements like 'no blame' without any word for 'is', simply placing the negator and the noun together. The final -un ending shows it is indefinite, the grammatical mark of 'a blame' rather than 'the blame'.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →

• فأنا أصعد وهم ينزلون إلى الدرك،

  So I rise while they descend into depths.

  الدَّرَكِ — the depth. The al- fixes this as a specific, definite 'the depth'. Because it follows the preposition meaning 'into', it takes the form Arabic gives nouns governed by a preposition, shown by the -i ending rather than the -u it would carry as a subject.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →