مَرَادٍintended meaning

Example sentences

• وَمَا أُسْتُشْكِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ مَرَادٍ،

  and whatever intended meaning was unclear to them,

  مَرَادٍ — intended meaning. An indefinite noun naming the intended sense of a text, the object of the specifying preposition before it, so it takes the genitive ending. Its indefiniteness keeps it general — any intended meaning. It pins down what kind of difficulty the questions were about.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →