جَهْل ignorance in Arabic
جَهْل is how you say “ignorance” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَظَهَرَ أَنَّ مَنْ أَنْكَرَ كَوْنَهُ رَسُولًا نَبِيًّا فَقَدْ قَدَحَ بِاللَّهِ وَنَقَصَهُ وَنَسَبَهُ إِلَى الْجَهْلِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالسَّفَهِ
It became clear that whoever denies his being a Messenger and Prophet has indeed defamed God, diminished Him, and attributed ignorance, inability, and folly to Him.
الْجَهْلِ ignorance
This noun carries 'the' and is governed by the preposition before it, taking the prepositional ending. It names ignorance as the first fault wrongly attributed; the article marks it as the abstract quality itself.
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More example sentences
فالله يوفقك، ويبصرك رشدك، ويوقظك من رقدة الجهل والرياء
May Allah guide you, make you see your right path, and awaken you from the slumber of ignorance and hypocrisy.
الْجَهْلِ ignorance
The owning noun in the 'slumber of ignorance' pair. Because it carries 'the' and sits second in the pairing, it is what makes the whole phrase definite, and its form shows it is the possessor rather than a free-standing subject.
فإذا عطلها مدعيًا للتوكل كان جهلًا بالتوكل وردًّا لحكمة الواضع لأن التوكل إنما هو اعتماد القلب على الله سبحانه وليس من ضرورته قطع الأسباب،
So if someone neglects them claiming reliance on God, it is ignorance of true trust and a rejection of the Creator's wisdom, because reliance is the heart's dependence on Allah, Exalted is He, and does not require abandoning means.
جَهْلًا ignorance
This noun is the predicate of 'it was', telling what his act amounts to, so it takes the object form the copula assigns. Its bare ending marks it indefinite, 'an ignorance'. It heads an 'of' pairing.
فَلَاقَاهُمَا أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا صَفْوَانَ،
So Abu Jahl met them and said, "O Abu Safwan,"
جَهْلٍ Jahl
The second half of the 'father of...' byname, in the 'of' (genitive) shape because it is owned by the kunya head before it. Though it literally means a quality, here it simply completes the name.