أَعْدَاءenemy

Example sentences

• والبعد مِنْهُ لَيْسَ فِي أعدائك أضرّ عَلَيْك مِنْك

  And being far from Him — among your enemies, none is more harmful to you than yourself.

  أَعْدَائِكَ — your enemies. A broken plural 'enemies' with '-ka' (your) attached, genitive after 'in'. The set being searched for the worst harm-doer.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• مَا تبلغ الْأَعْدَاء من جَاهِل من يبلغ الْجَاهِل من نَفسه

  What enemies achieve against an ignorant person is not as much as what the ignorant person achieves against himself.

  الْأَعْدَاءُ — enemies. The subject of 'attain', a broken plural, nominative ('-u'), after its verb. The outside foes.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• وَدُرِكَ الشَّقَاءُ وَسُوءُ الْقَضَاءِ وَشَمَاتَةُ الْأَعْدَاءِ

  And being overtaken by misery, an adverse decree, and the gloating of enemies.

  الْأَعْدَاءِ — of the enemies. This noun (built on an irregular, internal-change plural pattern) is the owner in 'gloating of the enemies' and stands in the genitive. Arabic links the two nouns by adjacency alone, and this owner noun names whose gloating, closing the list of afflictions.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• وَيُوَالِي أَوْلِيَاءَهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْمُتَّقِينَ وََيُعَادِي أَعْدَاءَهُ

  He befriends his allies, the believers and the God-fearing, and he is hostile to his enemies.

  أعداءه — his enemies. A plural noun 'his enemies' with 'his' fused on, the object of 'opposes'. The suffix gives the possessive directly, completing the contrast between whom he befriends and whom he opposes.

  From: What Worship Really Means →