بَاطِلِfalsehood

Example sentences

• والقول الفصل هو الذي يفصل بين الحق والباطل فيميز هذا من هذا

  The decisive word is that which distinguishes between truth and falsehood, separating one from the other.

  وَالْبَاطِلِ — and falsehood. wa- (and) on a definite noun in the genitive, the second item under 'between': 'truth and falsehood'. The conjunction ties it as the matching half of the pair, and it keeps the genitive carried over from 'between'.

  From: Witnesses to God's Word →

• وَإِيَّاكَ وَطَرِيقَ الْبَاطِلِ،

  And beware of the path of falsehood.

  الْبَاطِلِ — the falsehood. This definite noun completes the 'of' pairing with 'path' before it: 'the path of falsehood'. As the owned half it takes the genitive ending, and its al- marks falsehood as the known, total opposite of the truth urged earlier. The bare juxtaposition of the two nouns carries the 'of'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →