أَبْعَدُfurthest

Example sentences

• وأبعدهم مِنْهُ من جهل عبوديته فِي هَذِه الْمَرَاتِب فعطلها علما وَعَملا

  And the furthest from Him are those who are ignorant of their servitude in these ranks and neglect it in knowledge and action.

  وَأَبْعَدُهُم — and the furthest of them. An elative, 'furthest', with 'them' fused on as the owner: 'the furthest of them'. The suffix completes the 'of' relationship without a separate word, and the whole is the topic of the contrast that follows.

  From: Accepting God's Decree →

• أَوْ أَبْعَدُ إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُهُمَا أَعْقَلَ مِنَ الْآخَرِ

  Or even farther, if one of them is more sensible than the other.

  أَبْعَدُ — farther. This is a comparative form, 'farther', on the af'al pattern, used as the predicate to push the distance estimate beyond east-and-west. It stands in for a fuller 'or the gap is even farther'. It heightens the simile just given.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →