أَكْبَرُgreatest in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَأَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِرِ الشِّرْكُ بِاللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَهُوَ نَوْعَانِ

  The greatest of the major sins is associating partners with Allah the Exalted, and it is of two types.

  فَأَكْبَرُ — so the greatest. A comparative adjective, 'the greatest', the head of an 'X of Y' chain, 'the greatest of the major sins'. The leading 'so' links it to the foregoing, and as a superlative-by-context it owns the noun that follows.

  From: The Sin of Idolatry →

• وَهَذَا هُوَ الشِّرْكُ الْأَكْبَرُ الَّذِي ذَكَرَهُ اللهُ

  And this is the major shirk that Allah mentioned.

  الْأَكْبَرُ — the major. An adjective, 'the major', describing the shirk before it and matching it in definiteness. It follows its noun and agrees, marking which kind is meant.

  From: The Sin of Idolatry →