Arabic vocabulary

وَلِيُّguardian in Arabic

وَلِيُّ is how you say “guardian” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَالَ تَعَالَى الْبَقَرَة الله ولي الَّذين آمنُوا يخرجهم من الظُّلُمَات إِلَى النُّور
And the Exalted said (in Sūrah al‑Baqarah): “Allah is the guardian (walī) of those who have believed; He brings them out from the darknesses into the light.”
وَلِيُّ — is the guardian. First noun of an 'X of Y' pair, 'guardian', the predicate, in the owned head form completed by 'those who believed'. So 'Allah is the guardian of the believers'; the pairing supplies the 'of'.
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