سَرِيرَتُinner state

Example sentences

• فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته

  So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner state. A feminine noun carrying an attached '-his', so the single word names both the inner state and its owner. The suffix supplies the possessor where English needs a separate 'his', and the noun serves as the subject of the preceding feminine 'was', its gender matching that verb.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →

• فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته

  So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner state. The same possessed noun as before, 'his inner state', here repeated as the subject of 'appears'. The attached '-his' keeps the owner fixed across the sentence, and the repetition is the text resuming its earlier topic to say what now becomes of it.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →

• فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته

  So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...

  سَرِيرَتُهُ — his inner state. The same possessed noun 'his inner state' as the subject of this second 'was', with the attached '-his' fixing the owner. The sentence breaks off here as preserved in the source, leaving the condition open, but grammatically the noun is the subject the dangling 'was' was waiting for.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →