قتلkilling

Example sentences

• فَإِن فِي قَتلهمْ أجرا عِنْد الله لمن قَتلهمْ

  For indeed in killing them is a reward with Allah for whoever kills them.

  قَتْلِهِمْ — killing them. This noun pairs with the attached 'them' as its owner, 'killing them', and sits in the genitive because the preposition before it governs it. It is a verbal idea turned into a noun, with the pronoun as the ones killed.

  From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →

• فَإِن فِي قَتلهمْ أجرا عِنْد الله لمن قَتلهمْ

  For indeed in killing them is a reward with Allah for whoever kills them.

  قَتَلَهُمْ — kills them. This is a past-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject and an attached 'them' as object, so one word says 'he kills them'. Inside the relative clause it states the deed that earns the reward.

  From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →

• لَئِن أدركتهم لأقتلنهم قتل عَاد

  If I were to encounter them, I would surely kill them like the killing of Aad.

  قَتْلَ — like the killing of. This noun is the front of a possessive pairing, 'the killing of Aad', and its accusative ending marks it as a verbal-noun object describing the manner of the act. It reaches forward to the owner that follows.

  From: Sincerity and Hypocrisy →