أَوَّلِfirst/beginning

Example sentences

• كما أقسم في أول السورة على حال الانسان في مبدئه ومعاده

  As He swore at the beginning of the surah about the state of man at the beginning and end.

  أَوَّلِ — beginning. A noun heading a possessive pairing with 'the chapter' after it: 'the beginning of the chapter'. It gives up its own 'the' and takes definiteness from the owner that follows; its genitive ending comes from the preposition before it.

  From: Witnesses to God's Word →

• فَإِقْرَأْ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا حَتَّى تَخْتِمَ

  So recite the Verse of the Throne from its beginning until you finish.

  أَوَّلِهَا — its beginning. A noun with the 'its' ending attached, pointing back to the verse as the thing that has a beginning. Governed by the preposition before it, the noun sits in the genitive, and the feminine suffix tracks the verse rather than any nearer word.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَلَكِنْ اِشْتَغَلَ بِمُهَاوْشَتِهِ عَنِ الصَّفِّ الْأَوَّلِ،

  But he was so occupied with his bickering that he was kept from the first row.

  الْأَوَّلِ — the first. An ordinal 'first', describing 'the row' before it and agreeing with it as a definite genitive. The shared al- locks the adjective to its noun, and the matching case shows they belong together. So 'the first row'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →

• جمعة الدفتان من أول الحمد لله رب العالمين إلى آخر قل أعوذ برب الناس كلام الله

  Friday of the Two Booklets: from the beginning, "Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds," to the end, "Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind." The Word of God.

  أَوَّلِ — beginning. This noun is governed by the preposition just before it, so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending. It then heads its own possessive pairing with the noun that follows, meaning 'the beginning of...', where the second noun names what is begun and gives this word its definiteness.

  From: Honoring the Quran →