صَرْعfall

Example sentences

• وَمَنْ صَرَعَ جُنْدَ الشَّيْطَانِ صَرَعَ الشَّيْطَانَ

  And whoever is struck down by the troops of Satan is struck down by Satan.

  صَرْعٍ — being felled. A verbal noun, the name of the action of felling itself rather than a finished verb. Arabic uses such action-nouns to talk about the deed in the abstract, and here it carries the 'being thrown down' idea into the conditional.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →