مَصَالِحinterests

Example sentences

• فَإِنَّهُ سَيُشِيرُ عَلَيْهِ بِالنَّظَرِ فِي الْمَصَالِحِ الآجِلَةِ

  For it will guide him to consider long-term benefits.

  الْمَصَالِحِ — benefits. Genitive plural after 'in'; the 'the' makes it the specific benefits at stake, and it opens onto the adjective that follows.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →

• وَإِذا تجلى بِصِفَات الْكِفَايَة والحسب وَالْقِيَام بمصالح الْعباد

  And when He manifests in the attributes of sufficiency, care, and attending to the interests of the servants.

  بِمَصَالِحِ — to the interests. 'Bi-' (with) fused with a broken plural 'interests / welfare', first term of a further 'of' pairing — 'the interests of the servants' — genitive. The pairing 'attending + bi-' means seeing to them; it owns the noun that follows.

  From: Humility Before the Divine →