مَالِهِhis wealth

Example sentences

• وَهُوَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا أَرْضَى فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لَهُ فِي حَيَّاتِهِ ثُلْثَيَ مَالِهِ

  And he favored one of them, so he intended to give him two-thirds of his wealth during his lifetime.

  مَالِهِ — his wealth. A noun with an attached 'his' suffix completing 'two-thirds of his wealth', in the genitive shape. As the owner-noun of the pairing it takes the genitive and names whose wealth it is.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →

• إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُعَذِّبَ عَبْدًا بِمَالِهِ وَفِقِهِ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ لِوَصِيَّةٍ جَائِرَةٍ

  Indeed, when God intends to punish a servant because of his wealth and his understanding, He causes him, at his death, to make an unjust will.

  بِمَالِهِ — by his wealth. The attached 'by/because of' prefix on a noun carrying an attached 'his' suffix, naming the cause, his wealth. The prefix forces the genitive shape and frames the wealth as the reason for the punishment.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →

• وَفَضْلُ مَالِهِ مَبْذُولٌ

  And the virtue of his wealth is spent.

  مَالِهِ — his wealth. The owner-word completing 'merit of his wealth', so it sits in the genitive as the second noun of the pairing, and it carries a '-hi' (his) at its end naming the possessor. So two layers of possession stack: the wealth is his, and the merit is the wealth's. The genitive is forced by its place in the chain.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →