جَزِيرَةislands

Example sentences

• ثم بنى لأهل الصلاح ذاتُ ألواحٍ وُدسرٍ فسلموا وغنموا وبحر الباقون كالجزر،

  Then He built for the people of righteousness a vessel of planks and nails; they were saved and prospered, while the rest were submerged like the ebbing tide,

  كَالجُزُرِ — like islands. A one-letter comparison particle is fused to the front, likening the drowned to the thing named, and because it acts like a preposition it pulls the noun into the 'of' ending. The 'the' makes that noun definite, marking it as the specific standard of the comparison.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →