لِهَاfor it

Example sentences

• فان لها في مضمر القلب والحشا سريرة حب يوم تبلى السرائر

  Indeed, within the heart and chest, there is a secret of love on the day secrets are revealed.

  لَهَا — within it. A preposition li- (to/for) fused with -ha (it/her), 'belonging to it'. Fronted before its subject, this 'to it' is the predicate of the emphatic opener and signals possession or existence: roughly 'there belongs to it...'. The -ha reaches back to the soul or self spoken of.

  From: Preparing for Judgment Day →

• فَلِهَذَا وَقَعَ فِي تَعْرِيبِهِمْ لِهَا خَطَأٌ كَثِيرٌ لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى

  For this reason, their rendering of it into Arabic contained many errors, both in wording and in meaning.

  لِهَا — for it. The relator 'li-' fused to '-ha' = 'it' (feminine), 'of/for it', pointing back to the Torah being translated. It marks what their rendering was of; one word carries relator plus pronoun, with the antecedent lying outside this sentence.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →

• فَقُلْنَ لِهَا كَلِّمِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُكَلِّمُ النَّاسَ،

  So they said to her, "Speak to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace; he addresses the people."

  لِهَا — to her. Preposition li- ('to') fused with the 'her' ending, marking the woman they addressed; one word for English's two. The preposition governs the attached pronoun, fixing her as the person spoken to.

  From: Wives of the Prophet →

• وَأَتَى بِهَا عَلَى نَسْقِ الْقِرَاءَةِ لِهَا لَا مُقَدَّمًا وَلَا مُؤَخَّرًا،

  And he presented them according to the pattern of their recitation, neither earlier nor later.

  لَهَا — for them. The preposition 'for/to' with a feminine plural 'them' suffix, 'for them', pointing back to the verses. The preposition governs its pronoun in the genitive. It ties the recitation-pattern to the verses it belonged to, reinforcing 'their own order'.

  From: Public Preaching →

• طَارَتْ لِهَا الْقُلُوبُ اِشْتِيَاقًا،

  The hearts soared with longing for it.

  لِهَا — for it. The preposition li- 'for/to' fused with a feminine 'it' pronoun, marking the goal of the longing. The whole 'for it' sits in one word, and the pronoun reaches back to a feminine thing named earlier, so reading means tracking which prior word it answers to.

  From: Public Preaching →