Arabic vocabulary
بَاطِلُfalsehood in Arabic
بَاطِلُ is how you say “falsehood” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
باطلها يؤذي المرء في دينه ويضلله،
Its falsehood harms a person in their religion and misleads them.
بَاطِلُهَا — its falsehood. This is 'the false part of it', a noun with attached '-ha' that points back to the mathematical wisdom — 'its falsehood'. It is the nominative subject of the sentence. The pronoun is doing referent-tracking: 'its' reaches back to the discipline, not to anything nearer.
From: Intention in Islam →
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