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هي is in Arabic

هي is how you say “is” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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More example sentences

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

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