خَلْقٌcreation

Example sentences

• وخمول الذّكر وإضاعة الْوَقْت ونفرة الْخلق

  Fading of reputation, waste of time, and people's aversion.

  الْخَلْقِ — of creation. al- = 'the'; al-khalq literally means 'creation' but here means 'people', so 'of people'.

  From: Returning to God →

• وهكذا الصائم صومُه مستورٌ عن مشاهدةِ الخلق، لا تدركه حواسُّهم

  and so is the fasting person; their fast is hidden from the view of creation, it cannot be perceived by their senses.

  الْخَلْقِ — creation. The owner completing 'the sight of creation', genitive, definite — all created beings. Their observation is what the fast escapes.

  From: The Meaning of Fasting →

• أي على رجعه إليه يوم القيامة كما هو قادر على خلقه من ماء هذا شأنه

  Meaning, bringing him back to Him on the Day of Resurrection, as He is able to create him from water of this nature.

  خَلْقِهِ — create him. This pairs the noun 'creation/creating' with an attached 'his', genitive after the preposition. It is a verbal noun naming the act of creating; the attached pronoun is the one created, 'his creation'.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →

• إنه ربوبيته الكاملة لخلقة تأبى أن يتركهم سدى

  Indeed, His complete lordship over His creation refuses to leave them neglected.

  لِخَلْقِهِ — over His creation. The preposition 'li-' fixes the following noun in the genitive and sets up a 'toward/over' relationship, framing the creation as what the lordship extends over. The owner is attached at the end of the noun as a suffix, so this one short word bundles a preposition, its noun, and a possessor that English would spread across three words.

  From: False Prophets →

• وأظهر في الأرض الفساد والجور والكذب وخالف الخلق

  And spread corruption, oppression, and falsehood on earth, and contradicted creation.

  الْخَلْقَ — creation. This noun, creation, is the accusative object of the opposing verb and definite by 'al-'. It names what is contradicted, rounding off the catalogue of the fabricator's deeds.

  From: False Prophets →

• إن الله تعالى خلق الخلق ليعبدوه، وجعل الدنيا دار ابتلاء واختبار

  Indeed, Allah the Exalted created the creation to worship Him, and made the world a place of trial and test.

  الخَلْقَ — the creation. The thing created, 'creation / created beings', taking the object ending as the receiver of the act. Its 'the' makes it the definite whole of what was made.

  From: Facing God's Tests →

• فالمؤمن مكلف بأن يقوم بحق الله، وحق نفسه، وحق الخلق

  So, the believer is tasked with fulfilling the rights of Allah, his self, and the creation.

  الخَلْقِ — the creation. The owner closing 'the right of creation', set right after the head-noun and so taking the genitive ending. Its 'the' makes it the definite whole of created people, the duties one owes others.

  From: Facing God's Tests →

• والثوب الجديد والخلق والتدريس،

  and the new garment, the creation, and the teaching.

  الْخَلْقُ — the creation. A definite noun continuing the list of glorifiers, in the plain subject ending matching the earlier items. The 'the' marks it as a known category, added as another joint subject in the chain.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• فلما قيل اسجد واضرب الشرس الخلق إلا شريس،

  Then when it was said, "Prostrate," he struck the stubborn creation — none but the stubbornly defiant.

  الْخَلْقَ — the creation. This definite noun stands in the object ending as a further specification of what is struck, agreeing with the previous word in being definite and in the object ending. The matching shapes tie the two together as the single thing acted upon.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• أبرم القضاء قبل خلق إنفاذا،

  He decreed the judgment before creation as enforcement.

  خَلْقِ — creation. This noun is governed by the time word 'before', so it sits in the possessor slot with the -i ending, giving 'before creation'. Arabic pairs the time word and its noun directly, with no separate word linking them.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →