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الْمَعْرُوفِ kindness in Arabic

الْمَعْرُوفِ is how you say “kindness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

يَسْتَكْثِرُ قَلِيلَ الْمَعْرُوفِ مِنْ غَيْرِهِ

He regards a small kindness from other than him as excessive.

الْمَعْرُوفِ the kindness

Definite by 'al-' and standing as the owner-word completing 'a little of the kindness', so it sits in the genitive as the second of two linked nouns. The two nouns placed together carry the 'of' sense with no separate word. It names the favour whose small amount he overvalues.

From On Reason and Temptation

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