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خَالِي empty in Arabic

خَالِي is how you say “empty” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَأخرج من بَين الْبيُوت لعلني أحدث عَنْك الْقلب بالسر خَالِيا

I leave the houses, hoping to speak of you with a heart empty of everything else.

خَالِيًا empty

An accusative of state — telling it 'while [the heart is] empty', the '-an' tanwin marking the condition during the action. It pictures a heart cleared of all but the Beloved.

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فالحب الخلي عَن ذل والذل الخلي عَن حب لَا يكون عبَادَة

For love devoid of humility and humility devoid of love is not worship.

الْخَالِي devoid

This adjective carries 'the' to match the definite noun it describes, since an adjective in Arabic agrees with its noun in definiteness and case. It attaches to 'the love' as a quality, 'the empty one', and only the noun after the preposition completes the sense.

From Worship and Repentance

فالحب الخلي عَن ذل والذل الخلي عَن حب لَا يكون عبَادَة

For love devoid of humility and humility devoid of love is not worship.

الْخَالِي the devoid

This adjective carries 'the' to agree with the definite noun it describes, matching it in definiteness and case as Arabic adjectives must. It attaches to 'the humility' as its quality before the preposition names what is missing.

From Worship and Repentance

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