أَشْهَادِهَاits witnesses

Example sentences

• وَفِي أَشْهَادِهَا وَفِي مَعْرِفَتِهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ وَالْكَافِرُ وَالْبَرُّ وَالْفَاجِرُ

  And in its witnesses and in its knowledge are the believer and the disbeliever, the righteous and the wicked.

  أَشْهَادِهَا — its witnesses. A plural noun carrying an attached 'its' at its end, which points back to the feminine 'reality' from earlier rather than to any closer noun. Tracking that distant owner is the reading skill here, since Arabic lets a suffix reach back some distance.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• فَمَنْ وَقَفَ عِنْدَ هَذِهِ الْحَقِيقَةِ وَعِنْدَ أَشْهَادِهَا

  So whoever pauses at this truth and at its witnesses.

  أَشْهَادِهَا — its witnesses. A plural noun with 'its' attached, the suffix pointing back to the feminine truth from earlier rather than to a nearer word. It is the second thing the 'whoever' pauses at, governed by the preposition before it.

  From: What Worship Really Means →