Arabic vocabulary
لِأَوْلِيَاءfor close ones
How to say “for close ones” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ولم يرضها لأوليائه فبنى لهم غير هذه الدار،
And He was not pleased with it for His close ones, so He built for them another abode,
لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ — for His close ones. This is the 'li-' 'for' joined to 'His close ones', forcing the genitive, with the attached 'His' pointing to God. It marks the people on whose behalf the world was found wanting.
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