قلبheart

Example sentences

• والأفضلُ أن تجمعَ اللفظَ والحضور تردِّد لا إلهَ إلا الله وأنت تفكّ قيودَ قلبِك من كلِّ معبودٍ باطلٍ صورة، مال، هوى

  And it is better to combine the utterance and presence: you repeat 'None is worthy of worship except Allah' while freeing your heart from all false gods: images, wealth, desires.

  قَلْبِكَ — your heart. 'your heart', genitive owner of 'the shackles', with 'your' attached. The chains belong to — bind — your own heart.

  From: Turning Daily Words into Worship →

• هكذا يتحوّل الذِّكرُ إلى مدرسةٍ يومية يعلّمك النظرَ الصحيح، يطهّر لسانك من اللغو، ويَشدُّ قلبَك إلى ربّه،

  This is how remembrance becomes a daily school: it teaches you correct perception, purifies your tongue from idle talk, and binds your heart to its Lord,

  قَلْبَكَ — your heart. 'your heart', accusative as the object bound, with 'your' attached. The thing fastened to its Lord.

  From: Turning Daily Words into Worship →

• ولينزله على القلوب،

  and apply it to the hearts,

  القُلُوبِ — the hearts. A broken plural in the genitive after 'upon', made definite by 'al-'. The hearts as the field onto which the parable is laid.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• فقلبٌ خلا من الخير كله،

  So a heart that is devoid of all good,

  فَقَلْبٌ — so a heart. 'Fa-' opening a new case plus an indefinite 'heart' (the tanwin), the topic of a fresh sentence. Indefinite because it introduces a type of heart, one of the kinds being sorted.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• وهو قلب الكافر والمنافق،

  which is the heart of the disbeliever and the hypocrite,

  قَلْبُ — heart. First term of an 'of' pairing — 'the heart of the disbeliever' — nominative as the predicate identifying 'it'. It hands its definiteness to the owner that follows.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• وقلبٌ قد امتلأ من جلال الله ﷿ وعظمته، ومحبته ومراقبته، والحياء منه،

  And a heart filled with the majesty and greatness of Allah, love for Him, awareness of Him, and shyness before Him,

  وَقَلْبٌ — and a heart. 'And' plus an indefinite 'heart' (tanwin), the topic of the opposite case now introduced. Indefinite because it presents the contrasting type of heart.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• فأيُّ شيطان يجترئ على هذا القلب؟،

  So what Satan could dare to approach this heart?!

  الْقَلْبِ — heart. In the genitive after 'upon', definite, paired with 'this'. The specific heart no devil dares approach.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• لَو استنشقت ريح الأسحار لأفاق مِنْك قَلْبك المخمور

  If you inhaled the dawn breeze, your intoxicated heart would awaken.

  قَلْبُكَ — your heart. 'Heart' with '-ka' (your) attached, the subject of 'would awaken', nominative. What would rouse from its stupor.

  From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →

• إِذا نزل آب فِي الْقلب حل آذار فِي الْعين

  When the heat of August settles in the heart, the rain of March flows from the eyes.

  الْقَلْبِ — the heart. In the genitive after 'in', definite. Where the heat of longing settles.

  From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →

• لَو تغذى الْقلب بالمحبة لذهبت عَنهُ بطنة الشَّهَوَات

  If the heart were nourished with love, the gluttony of desires would depart from it.

  الْقَلْبُ — the heart. The subject of 'was nourished', nominative ('-u'), after its verb. What feeds on love.

  From: Remembering and Loving God →

• وَمن خلقت فِيهِ قُوَّة الْحبّ لله والإنابة إِلَيْهِ والعكوف بِالْقَلْبِ عَلَيْهِ والشوق إِلَيْهِ والأنس بِهِ فلذته ونعيمه اسْتِعْمَال هَذِه الْقُوَّة فِي ذَلِك

  And for those created with the power of love for Allah, and returning to Him, and devotion to Him with the heart, and longing for Him, and intimacy with Him, their pleasure and bliss is in using this strength for those purposes.

  بِالْقَلْبِ — with the heart. 'Bi-' (with) fused with 'the heart', genitive — 'with the heart'. The 'bi-' marks the instrument: devotion of the heart.

  From: Directing Desire Toward God →

• وَهَذَا إِنَّمَا يأتى مِنْهُ إِذا تمكن حبه من قلبه

  And this only comes from him when His love is firmly rooted in his heart.

  قَلْبِهِ — his heart. In the genitive because the preposition governs it, with 'his' fused on. It is the heart that the love takes firm hold of, the seat where the lofty state is born.

  From: Accepting God's Decree →

• وَصِدْقِ مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ رَسُولُهُ وَمَا لَمْ يُبَاشِرْ قَلْبُهُ ذَلِكَ حَقِيقَةً لَمْ تُخَالِطْ بَشَاشَةُ الْإِيمَانِ قَلْبَهُ

  And the truth of what His Messenger has conveyed — whoever's heart has not experienced that reality, the sweetness of faith has not entered his heart.

  قَلْبُهُ — his heart. The noun 'his heart' with an attached 'his' ending, the doer of the negated verb, in the nominative subject ending. The pronoun names the person whose heart it is.

  From: Proofs of Scripture →

• وَصِدْقِ مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ رَسُولُهُ وَمَا لَمْ يُبَاشِرْ قَلْبُهُ ذَلِكَ حَقِيقَةً لَمْ تُخَالِطْ بَشَاشَةُ الْإِيمَانِ قَلْبَهُ

  And the truth of what His Messenger has conveyed — whoever's heart has not experienced that reality, the sweetness of faith has not entered his heart.

  قَلْبَهُ — his heart. The noun 'his heart' with an attached 'his' ending, the object of 'did not mix into', in the accusative object ending. The pronoun names the person whose heart faith's sweetness did not reach.

  From: Proofs of Scripture →

• سكنت نفسه واطمأن قلبه

  his soul is at rest and his heart is assured.

  قَلْبُهُ — his heart. The thing that becomes assured, 'his heart', with the owner attached as a suffix pointing back to the same believer. As the doer it carries the subject ending.

  From: Trusting God's Decree →

• كَمَا أَن العابد الزَّاهِد قد يكون لما فِي قلبه من بِدعَة ونفاق مسخوطا عِنْد الله وَرَسُوله

  Just as a devout worshipper may, because of the innovation and hypocrisy in his heart, be disliked by Allah and His Messenger.

  قَلْبِهِ — his heart. This noun pairs with the attached 'his' as its owner, 'his heart', and sits in the genitive because the preposition before it governs it. The pronoun points back to the worshipper, fixing whose heart is meant.

  From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →