أُصُولٌfoundations

Example sentences

• وألحقوه بأصول الفقه في الدين،

  And they attached it to the foundations of jurisprudence in religion.

  بِأُصُولِ — to the foundations. 'to the foundations of' — here 'bi' marks what they joined it TO; genitive, head of an 'of' pairing with 'fiqh'; broken plural of 'asl'.

  From: Misguided Methodology →

• أصول الدين هو اسم عظيم،

  'The Fundamentals of Religion' is a great name,

  أُصُولُ — fundamentals. This is a broken plural ('roots / foundations'), reshaped from its singular, and it heads a possessive pairing — 'the foundations OF religion'. It is the nominative subject of a verbless sentence. As the first term of the chain it gives up any 'the' of its own and takes its definiteness from the owner that follows.

  From: Scripture Over Speculation →

• فهما أصول دين الإسلام، ليس إلا،

  For they are the fundamentals of the religion of Islam, nothing else.

  أُصُولُ — the fundamentals. This is the predicate, a broken plural heading a possessive ('the foundations of...'). It is nominative as the comment of the sentence. As a construct head it drops its own 'the' and leans on the owner that follows for definiteness.

  From: Scripture Over Speculation →

• فأصول دين السلف الإيمان بالله وكتبه ورسله وملائكته،

  The fundamentals of the religion of the predecessors were faith in Allah, His books, His messengers, His angels,

  فَأُصُولُ — so the fundamentals. This is 'so' plus a broken plural heading a possessive — 'so the foundations of...'. It is the nominative subject (topic). As a construct head it drops its own 'the' and draws definiteness from the chain of owners that follows.

  From: Scripture Over Speculation →

• والترضي عن كل الصحابة، إلى غير ذلك من أصول السنة،

  and to be pleased with all the companions, among other fundamentals of the Sunnah,

  أُصُولِ — fundamentals. Genitive after 'among', this broken plural ('foundations') heads a possessive — 'the foundations OF the Sunnah'. So it is both object of the partitive and owner of the noun to come. It rounds the list back to its heading.

  From: Scripture Over Speculation →

• وأصول دين الخلف هو ما صنفوا فيه،

  The fundamentals of the religion of the later generations are what they compiled,

  وَأُصُولُ — the fundamentals. This is 'and' plus a broken plural heading a possessive — 'and the foundations of...'. It is the nominative subject of the new sentence. As construct head it drops its own 'the' and takes definiteness from the chain that follows.

  From: Scripture Over Speculation →