الْمَوْتِdeath

Example sentences

• إِذَا مَاتَ قَالَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ

  When a person dies, at the moment of death he says, "There is no god but God."

  الْمَوْتِ — death. A definite noun, 'the death', in the genitive as the thing the time-word governs. It completes 'at the moment of death', fixing exactly when the saying happens.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →

• وَهُمْ الَّذِينَ تَقُولُ لَهُمْ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ أَلَا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا

  They are the ones to whom the angels say at the time of death, Do not fear and do not grieve.

  الْمَوْتِ — death. A noun in the genitive because the 'at the time of' before it governs it, completing the pairing 'at the time of death'. The two words form a single time-phrase joined simply by adjacency, fixing when the angels speak.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• قَالَ أَن تُؤْمِنَ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْبَعْثُ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ

  He said: To believe in God, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the resurrection after death.

  الْمَوْت — the death. A definite noun 'death' governed by 'after' into the genitive, the point past which the resurrection comes. The preposition forces the genitive ending, completing 'after death'.

  From: Faith and Worship →

• وَأَزِيدُكَ فِي هَذَا بَيَانًا مِثْلَ سَاعَةِ الْمَوْتِ،

  And I add for you in this a clarification: for example, the moment of death.

  الْمَوْتِ — death. A noun made definite by al- ('death'), the owned half of 'the moment OF death', in the genitive as the possessor. Set right after the head-noun with no word for 'of', it completes the example and makes it definite.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →