Arabic vocabulary

سُفَهَاءfools in Arabic

سُفَهَاء is how you say “fools” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فقال من طلب العلم ليجاري به العلماء، ويماري به السفهاء، ويصرف به وجوه الناس اليه أدخله الله النار
He said: 'Whoever seeks knowledge to compete with the scholars, or to argue with the foolish, or to turn people's faces towards him, Allah will admit him into the Fire.'
السُّفَهَاءَ — the foolish. The object of 'argue with', the foolish people, in the object form. Its 'the' marks them as a known class; grammatically it is the target of the disputing verb.
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