خَوْضengagement

Example sentences

• وهم من أهل الخوض مع الخائضين المكذبين بيوم الدين

  And they are among those who engage in vain talk along with those who deny the Day of Judgment.

  الْخَوْضِ — vain talk. This noun carries 'the' and is owned by 'people' before it: the people of plunging into idle talk. As the possessed half it takes the genitive ending; the two nouns sit directly together for 'of'.

  From: Prayer and Charity →

• ما هذا الخوض في الفضول إنما هو كتاب وسنة بس،

  What is this engagement in trivialities? It is nothing but the Book and the Sunnah.

  الخَوْضُ — the engagement. The al- makes this definite, 'the plunging / engagement'. It is the noun the question is about, named by the demonstrative before it, and carries the -u subject-style ending as the focus of the rhetorical question.

  From: God's Attributes →