سَرِيرَتُهُhis inner state

Example sentences

• فاسدة كان عمله تابعًا لسريرته لا اعتبار بصورته فتبدو سريرته على وجهه سوادا وظلمة وشينا

  His deeds were corrupt, following his inner self; no regard was paid to his outward appearance, so his inner state appeared on his face as blackness, darkness, and ugliness.

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner state. The possessed noun 'his inner state' as the subject of 'appears', with the attached '-his' fixing the owner. It revives the running topic to say what now becomes visible of it, paralleling the same construction used in the righteous case earlier.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →

• وإن كان الذي يبدو عليه في الدنيا إنما هو عمله لا سريرته فيوم القيامة تبدو عليه سريرته ويكون الحكم والظهور لها

  If what appears about someone in this world is only his deeds and not his inner self, then on the Day of Resurrection his inner self will be revealed and the judgment and manifestation will be for it.

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner self. A noun with an attached '-his', the very thing the 'not' excludes, his inner self. The suffix supplies the owner, and the noun is set in opposition to the deeds, completing the 'his deeds, not his inner self' contrast at the heart of the sentence.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →

• وإن كان الذي يبدو عليه في الدنيا إنما هو عمله لا سريرته فيوم القيامة تبدو عليه سريرته ويكون الحكم والظهور لها

  If what appears about someone in this world is only his deeds and not his inner self, then on the Day of Resurrection his inner self will be revealed and the judgment and manifestation will be for it.

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner self. The same possessed noun 'his inner self', here the delayed subject of 'will appear', with its feminine gender matching that verb. Its repetition resumes the topic, and the attached '-his' keeps the owner constant, so the sentence circles back to the inner self to say it is finally revealed.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →