عَيْنِeye

Example sentences

• وَبَدْءُ الْهَوَى طَمُوحُ الْعَيْنِ

  And the beginning of desire is the eye's ambition.

  الْعَيْنِ — the eye. A definite noun carrying 'the', the owned half of 'the reaching of the eye'. That owner role puts it in the 'of...' ending. It names the organ whose ambition starts the trouble: the eye, whose roaming look is where desire is born.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →

• آيَةُ الزَّمَانِ، وَقُرَّةُ عَيْنِ الإِيمَانِ، رَئِيسُ الحَنَبْلِيَّةِ،

  A marvel of the age, the delight of the eye of faith, the chief of the Hanbali school.

  عَيْنِ — of the eye. A noun 'eye', the middle term of a layered possessive chain, 'delight of the eye of faith': it is owned by the preceding 'delight' yet itself owns the following 'faith'. So it is genitive to what precedes and head to what follows in a nested construct.

  From: Public Preaching →