مِثْلُfor example

Example sentences

• وَيَرَى لِيَّ كُلُّ سَنَةٍ عَابِدٌ مِثْلُكَ هَذِهِ الرُّؤْيَا

  And every year a devout worshipper like you sees this vision about me.

  مِثْلُكَ — like you. This noun means 'like, equal of' and carries the attached '-ka' (you, masculine), so it bundles 'like you' into one word and describes the worshipper as comparable to the addressee. The suffix is the post-noun 'you' form, fixing whom the comparison is to. It paints the seer as a peer of the listener.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• وَلَيْسَ كَذَٰلِكَ؛ لِأَنَّ مِثْلُ الطَّبْعِ فِي مَيْلِهِ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا كَالْمَاءِ الْجَارِيِ،

  But that is not so; for the disposition, in its inclination toward the world, is like flowing water,

  مِثْلُ — the example of. A noun meaning 'the likeness/case of', which heads an 'of' pairing with the next word: 'the case OF the disposition'. As the first half it gives up its own 'the' and draws definiteness from what follows, while serving as the subject of the reason-clause.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ الثَّالِثَةُ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ فَاعْرِضْ عَنْهُ

  Then the third said the same to him, so turn away from him.

  مِثْلُ — like. A noun meaning 'the like of', heading an 'of' chain with the demonstrative after it: 'the like of that', the same thing. It works as what was said. Arabic builds 'the same as that' by setting this noun directly before 'that'.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →