سَاعَةِhour

Example sentences

• وَاللَّهِ إِنْ جَاءَ بِهِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ إِلَّا لِأَمْرٍ

  By God, if he brought him at this hour, it would be only for an important matter.

  السَّاعَةِ — the hour. A noun made specific by al-, 'the hour', sitting in the genitive after the preposition 'in'. It is the moment the demonstrative is pointing at, and the definiteness marks it as THIS known, present hour.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• وَأَزِيدُكَ فِي هَذَا بَيَانًا مِثْلَ سَاعَةِ الْمَوْتِ،

  And I add for you in this a clarification: for example, the moment of death.

  سَاعَةِ — moment of. A noun ('moment/hour') that is the owned half of 'the like of the MOMENT', and itself heads a further 'of' pairing with the next word. So it is genitive after 'the like of', yet also gives up its own 'the' as the head of 'moment OF death'.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• فَأَرْسَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ لِسَاعَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا

  So she sent word to him asking him to come at a certain hour.

  لِسَاعَةِ — at a certain hour. The preposition li- ('at/for') fused to a noun ('hour/time'), governing it in the genitive, so 'at the hour of' is one word. Here the li- pins down a scheduled timepoint, and the noun heads an 'of' pairing with what follows.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →