شُيُوخelders

Example sentences

• إنما همتهم في السماع على جهلة الشيوخ، وتكثير العدد من الأجزاء والرواة،

  Their only concern is listening to ignorant scholars and accumulating large numbers of volumes and narrators.

  الشُّيُوخِ — elders. A broken-plural noun with al- 'the', definite, 'the elders/shaykhs', the owning half of 'the ignorant of the elders'. Only this final noun keeps its 'the', spreading definiteness across the pairing. As the possessor it takes the genitive ('of') ending.

  From: Sincere Worship →