أَوْلِيَائِهِHis close ones

Example sentences

• وَلَمْ يَرْضَهَا لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ فَبَنَى لَهُمْ غَيْرَ هَذِهِ الدَّارِ،

  And He did not approve the world for His close ones, so He built for them another home.

  لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ — for His close ones. The preposition li- ('for') fused onto a noun that itself ends in -hi ('His'), so one word means 'for His ...'. The li- assigns the genitive and marks the beneficiaries; the -hi possessive points back to God. It names those for whom the world was not deemed good enough.

  From: This World Is Short →