الضَّلالِerror

Example sentences

• فَشَرَّدَهُمْ فِي بَيْدَاءِ الضَّلَالِ

  Then he scattered them into the desolate wilderness of error.

  الضَّلالِ — of error. A noun carrying 'the', the owner half of 'wilderness of error', joined by bare juxtaposition. It wears the after-link ending and supplies definiteness, making it the specific 'error' meant. It says what the wilderness belongs to, turning a place into a metaphor for going astray.

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