الشَّرِّevil in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَدْرِكَنِي

  And I used to ask him about evil, for fear that it might overtake me.

  الشَّرِّ — the evil. A definite noun in the genitive shape set by the preposition before it. The 'al-' marks it as 'the evil', the known subject of the speaker's inquiry.

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