خَالِيempty

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• 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 →