عَجْزinability

Example sentences

• 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.

  وَالْعَجْزِ — and inability. The wa- adds a second attributed fault, a noun carrying 'the', 'and inability', in the prepositional form by sharing the earlier preposition. Coordinated with ignorance, it continues the list of faults.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →

• وأقر بالعجز فخلا لي المعترك،

  And they acknowledged their inability, so the battlefield was left to me.

  بِالعَجْزِ — with the inability. The bi- attaches to mark what is acknowledged: it links the verb 'admitted' to its content, 'the inability', the way certain Arabic verbs reach their object through this small preposition rather than directly. The al- makes the noun definite, and the bi- forces its post-preposition ending.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →