كَذِبfalsehood

Example sentences

• وَأَظْهَرَ فِي الْأَرْضِ الْفَسَادَ وَالْجَوْرَ وَالْكَذِبَ وَخَالَفَ الْخَلْقَ،

  And who spread corruption, injustice, and falsehood on earth and opposed creation.

  وَالْكَذِبَ — and falsehood. This joins 'and' to 'the falsehood', the third coordinated object of 'spread', in the object ending and definite. It completes the trio of corruption, injustice, and falsehood.

  From: Proof of the True Messenger →

• فإن ترقت همته المقيتة إلى الكذب في النقل ، والتزوير في الطباق ، فقد استراح ،

  For if his vile ambition reaches lying in transmission and falsifying documents, then he has found ease,

  الكَذِبِ — lying. The al- marks this definite, 'the lying', and it sits in the possessed ending forced by ila before it: 'to the lying'. The word is an action-noun naming the act of lying as the endpoint the ambition reaches.

  From: True Devotion →