مَجَالِسِهِhis sessions

Example sentences

• فَكَانَ زُوَّارُ بَغْدَادِ يَحْرِصُونَ عَلَى حُضُورِ مَجَالِسِهِ

  Visitors to Baghdad were eager to attend his sessions.

  مَجَالِسِهِ — his sessions. A noun 'sessions' with the 'his' suffix attached, the owning second term completing 'attending his sessions'. The possessor reaches back to the scholar named earlier, not the nearest noun, so tracking it is part of the reading; the pairing form gives it the genitive.

  From: Public Preaching →

• وَنَعْتَسِفُ مَفَازَةً الْقَفْرِ إِلَّا لِمُشَاهَدَةِ مَجْلِسٍ مِنْ مَجَالِسِهِ

  And we seek the desert's shelters only to behold one of his assemblies.

  مَجَالِسِهِ — his assemblies. A plural noun with a 'his' pronoun fused onto its end, a possessive in one word. It stands in the genitive because the partitive preposition before it governs that ending, and the attached 'his' ties the gatherings back to the figure they belong to.

  From: Public Preaching →