بَرْقٍflash of lightning

Example sentences

• كُلُّ بَرْقٍ رُبَّ بَرْقٍ فِيهِ صَوَاعِقُ حَيْنِ

  Every flash of lightning may at times contain thunderbolts.

  بَرْقٍ — flash of lightning. An indefinite noun, no 'the', the owned half of 'every flash'. The quantifier before it forces it into the 'of...' ending, and being singular it spreads the sense to each individual lightning-flash. So it marks each gleam, taken one by one, as the subject of the warning.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →

• كُلُّ بَرْقٍ رُبَّ بَرْقٍ فِيهِ صَوَاعِقُ حَيْنِ

  Every flash of lightning may at times contain thunderbolts.

  بَرْقٍ — flash of lightning. The same indefinite noun for a lightning-flash, repeated, now governed by the 'perhaps a...' particle before it and so carrying that particle's special ending. The repetition picks up the image to narrow it: not every flash but many a particular one conceals danger.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →