شُبُهَاتٍdoubts

Example sentences

• فَمن اتَّقى الشُّبُهَات اسْتَبْرَأَ لعرضه وَدينه

  Whoever avoids the ambiguous matters clears himself regarding his religion and honor.

  الشُّبُهَاتِ — the ambiguous matters. Definite plural object of the verb, 'the ambiguous matters', marked as definite by the attached 'the'. It is the thing acted upon, so it takes the object form. Arabic signals a known, bounded category this way rather than leaving it open-ended.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →

• وَمن وَقع فِي الشُّبُهَات وَقع فِي الْحَرَام

  And whoever falls into the ambiguous matters falls into the unlawful.

  الشُّبُهَاتِ — the ambiguous matters. Definite plural, 'the ambiguous matters', in the form a preposition requires. The attached 'the' marks it as a known category already under discussion, the doubtful gray-area cases.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →