هَيْئَةform

Example sentences

• والذي نفس محمد بيده ما من كلم يكلم في سبيل الله إلا جاء يوم القيامة كهيئته يوم كلم،

  By the One in whose hand is Muhammad's soul, there is no wound inflicted in the Cause of Allah except that it will come on the Day of Resurrection in the same state it was when it was inflicted,

  كَهَيْئَتِهِ — in the same state. This is the preposition ka- (like/as) fused with 'state' carrying 'its', so one word means 'like its state', describing the wound as unchanged. The ka- governs the noun, the suffix points back to the wound, and the whole compares the wound's later look to its original; one Arabic word holds 'like', the noun, and the possessor.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →