صَوْمfast

Example sentences

• رُبَّ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صَوْمِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَالْعَطَشُ، وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ

  'Perhaps a fasting person gains nothing from his fast except hunger and thirst, and perhaps one who prays gains nothing from his prayer except sleeplessness.'

  صَوْمِهِ — his fast. A noun, 'his fast', with 'his' attached as possessor. The suffix marks the fast as the person's own, and it stands under the 'from' as the act yielding nothing but hunger.

  From: Empty Fasting, Empty Prayer →

• يَعْنِي أَنَّهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالصَّوْمُ لِوَجْهِ اللهِ تَعَالَى فَلَا ثَوَابَ لَهُ

  This means that if the prayer and fasting are not done for the sake of Allah, then there is no reward for them.

  وَالصَّوْمُ — and the fasting. The connector 'and' joined to a definite noun, 'the fasting', carrying 'the', paired with 'the prayer' as a second subject. The 'the' marks it as fasting in the prescribed sense.

  From: Empty Fasting, Empty Prayer →