بِصَدَدِهِin his preoccupation

Example sentences

• فَإِنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ وَاِشْتَغَلَ لِمَا هُوَ بِصَدَدِهِ،

  If, however, he turns away from it and becomes occupied with what occupies him,

  بِصَدَدِهِ — in his preoccupation. The bi- here marks what he is engaged in ('concerned with it'); it links the man's attention to his task. The noun it rides is 'concern/business' carrying -hu ('his'), so bi- governs that possessed noun into the genitive. The whole forms the idiom 'what he is occupied with'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →