ذُلّ humility in Arabic
ذُلّ is how you say “humility” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أَعْطَتْ نَفسه المطمئنة مَا وصلت إِلَيْهِ من الذل لعظمته والانكسار لعزته
His tranquil soul gives what it reached in humility to His greatness and in submission to His might.
الذُّلِّ humility
In the genitive after the explanatory 'min', definite — lowliness / abasement before God. The first thing the soul attains and gives.
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وَهِي اسْم يجمع كَمَال الذل ونهايته وَكَمَال الْحبّ لله ونهايته
And it is a term that encompasses complete humility at its highest degree, and complete love for Allah at its highest degree.
الذُّلِّ of humility
This is the owner closing the pairing, 'of humility', set straight after the noun it completes with no word for 'of'. Its genitive ending alone shows the relationship, naming what the fullness belongs to.
فالحب الخلي عَن ذل والذل الخلي عَن حب لَا يكون عبَادَة
For love devoid of humility and humility devoid of love is not worship.
ذُلٍّ humility
This noun is indefinite, with no 'the', and its ending shows the genitive case because the preposition before it governs it. The indefinite form gives the sweeping sense of 'devoid of any humility at all'.
فالحب الخلي عَن ذل والذل الخلي عَن حب لَا يكون عبَادَة
For love devoid of humility and humility devoid of love is not worship.
وَالذُّلُّ and the humility
The 'and' prefix balances this against the first half, and the noun carries 'the' as a second subject. Arabic pairs the two mirror-image phrases here, each subject taking the same plain ending before the shared verdict at the end.
وَالْذُّلُّ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الْعِزِّ
And humiliation is dearer to him than honor.
وَالْذُّلُّ and humiliation
Joins a coordinating 'wa-' to a noun made definite by 'al-'. The 'wa-' here sets up a deliberate contrast, opening a clause that pairs against the previous one to push the paradox of preferring lowliness. The article marks the abstract state as the known concept now made the subject of comparison.