لِلنَّاسِfor people

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  لِلنَّاسِ — for people. The 'for' prefix is a preposition that forces the noun after it into the genitive and marks who benefits from or is the target of the beautifying. It links the action to its recipients, telling you the love was made attractive in the eyes of these people rather than by them.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →