يدhand

Example sentences

• وَلَا أُيِّدُوا وَنُصِرُوا وَلَا ظَهَرَتْ عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمُ الْآيَاتُ، وَلَا صَدَّقَهُمُ الرَّبُّ تَعَالَى بِإِقْرَارِهِ وَلَا بِفِعْلِهِ وَلَا بِقَوْلِهِ

  They were neither supported nor aided, nor did signs appear by their hands, nor did the Lord, Exalted be He, affirm them by His acknowledgment, action, or speech.

  أَيْدِيهِمُ — their hands. This noun is plural, naming hands, with an attached possessive pronoun, 'their hands', governed by the preposition before it. The owner pronoun points to the kings; the phrase marks the channel through which no signs came.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →