مَعْرِفَةِknowledge

Example sentences

• إِنَّمَا أَرَدْنَا لِلْمَعْرِفَةِ، وَالصَّحِيحُ حَدِيثُ أَبِيْ ذَرٍّ

  We intended it only for knowledge, and the authentic report is that of Abu Dharr.

  لِلْمَعْرِفَةِ — for the knowledge. A preposition 'for' fused with the definite noun 'the knowledge', the 'the' tucked inside the joined form. It names the purpose the intending was aimed at, the unit covering 'for the knowledge'.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →

• وَفِيهِمْ مَنْ يُبَارِزُ بِالذُّنُوبِ الْعَظِيمَةِ، مَعَ نَوْعِ مَعْرِفَةِ الْمَنَاهِيِ

  Among them are those who brazenly commit grave sins while having only a limited knowledge of the prohibitions.

  مَعْرِفَةِ — knowledge of. An action-noun, 'knowing/knowledge', caught in the middle of a stacked 'of' chain: it is owned by 'a kind of' before it and itself owns 'the prohibitions' after it. Such chains can run several nouns deep in Arabic, each linking to the next by adjacency alone, with no separate word for 'of' anywhere.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →