رَخَاءease

Example sentences

• تَعَرَّفْ إلَى اللَّهِ فِي الرَّخَاءِ يَعْرِفُك فِي الشِّدَّةِ،

  Get to know Allah in prosperity, and He will know you in adversity.

  الرَّخَاءِ — prosperity. In the genitive after 'in', naming ease and abundance, the comfortable times. The counsel: build the bond when life is easy.

  From: Patience and Trust in God →

• وَقَدِيمًا خِرِتُ لَهُمْ فَإِنِّي لَأَذُودُهُمْ عَنْ نَعِيمِهَا وَرَخَائِهَا

  And long ago I took pains for them, so indeed I do ward them off from its pleasures and its comforts.

  وَرَخَائِهَا — and its comforts. The wa- on the front is 'and', joining this noun to the previous one so they share the same 'warded away from' role, and -ha ('its') is fused to its end, again pointing back to the world. So one word coordinates a second item and marks it as belonging to the world. The two nouns together complete what the people are kept from.

  From: Under God's Shield →