قِبَل direction in Arabic
قِبَل is how you say “direction” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ثم يرسل الله عز وجل،ريحاً باردة من قبل الشام،
Then Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will send a cold wind from the direction of Syria,
قِبَلِ the direction of
Genitive after 'from', this means 'the direction / quarter of' and heads a possessive — 'from the direction OF Syria'. So it both follows 'from' and owns the place-name to come.
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والخير كله من قبل السماء يجي لما كان أظهر الخير المشهود بالعيان المطر
And all good comes from the sky because evident good is primarily the rain.
قِبَلِ from
A noun 'direction/side' that opens an 'of' pairing with the next word, forming the idiom 'from the side of the sky', meaning simply 'from the sky'. It sits in the genitive after the preceding 'from'.
والخير كله من قبل السماء يجي لما كان أظهر الخير المشهود بالعيان المطر فسر الرجع به ومقابلته بصدع الأرض عن النبات
And all good comes from the sky, and since the most evident visible blessing is rain, the 'return' is interpreted as such, contrasted with the earth's splitting for plant growth.
قِبَلِ before
A noun 'direction/before' opening an 'of' pairing with the next word, forming the idiom 'from the side of the sky', meaning simply 'from the sky'. It sits in the genitive after the preceding 'from'.
والخير كله من قبل السماء يجي لما كان أظهر الخير المشهود بالعيان المطر
All goodness comes from the sky, as the most apparent good seen with the eye is rain.
قِبَلِ from/by
This noun 'direction/before' is the front of an 'of' pair, 'the direction of the sky', genitive after the preposition. It is the idiomatic way to say 'from the side of'; it owns the noun after it and drops its own 'the'.