نَفْسِيfor myself

Example sentences

• وَاللَّهِ مَا كَانَ يَقَعُ فِي نَفْسِي إِلَّا ذَاكَ

  By God, nothing occurred in my mind except that.

  نَفْسِي — my self. A noun fused with 'my', here 'my self/mind', its attached first-person possessor showing whose inner thought this is. One word carries both the noun and 'my'.

  From: Abu Bakr After the Prophet →

• قَالَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَصْرُخَنَّ بِهَا بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْهِمْ،

  He said, "By the One in whose hand my soul is, I will certainly call out with it between their shoulder-blades."

  نَفْسِي — my soul. A noun carrying the attached -i 'my' on its end, so possessor and possessed sit in one word. Inside the oath it names exactly what is being held: the speaker's own soul, pledged as the thing in God's hand.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →

• يَا أَيُّهَا السَّائِلُ عَنْ مَنْزِلِي نَزَلْتُ فِي الْخَانِ عَلَى نَفْسِي،

  O questioner who asks about my dwelling, I stayed at the inn by myself.

  نَفْسِي — my self. A reflexive 'self' noun ending in -i 'my', so it fuses 'self' with the speaker as owner. Sitting after the preposition it takes the genitive, reading 'on my own self', the basis of the 'by myself' idiom.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →