جَلْدflogging

Example sentences

• فِي عَاجِلِ الدُّنْيَا كَالْجَلْدَ وَالرِّجَامَ وَالْحَلْقَ

  In the immediate worldly life, such as flogging, stoning, and slitting the throat.

  كَالْجَلْدَ — like flogging. The prefix ka- here means 'such as/like', introducing examples, and forces the following noun into the (genitive); its al- makes it definite. So it opens a list of sample punishments. It links the examples back to the scandals just mentioned.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →