هيis

Example sentences

• وَلَيْسَ بِشَاغِلٍ يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ كَنَفْسِكَ الَّتِي هِيَ بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْكَ

  And nothing can distract you from Allah like your own self between your sides.

  هِيَ — is. 'hiya' = 'she/it', the pronoun 'it' standing for the self.

  From: Taming the Lower Self →

• وقيل صلب الرجل وترائبه وهي صدره فيخرج من صلبه وصدره

  And it was said that the backbone of the man and his ribs, which is his chest, is where it comes out from.

  وَهِيَ — which is. This is a feminine 'she/it' pronoun used to restate the subject before describing it, the way English uses 'which is'. Arabic often resumes a noun with a standalone pronoun to set up a fresh statement about it, and the feminine form agrees with the grammatically feminine noun it points back to.

  From: Creating Life from Nothing →