Arabic vocabulary
حَصْر is how you say “limit” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَصَدَقَ وَاللهِ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، وَأَمَّا الْحَدِيثُ فَمَا فِيهِ حَصْرُ الْكَبَائِرِ
And by Allah, Ibn Abbas was correct. As for the Hadith, it does not limit the major sins.
حَصْرُ — limit. A noun, 'a limiting/enumeration', the head of an 'X of Y' chain, 'a limiting of the major sins', and the thing whose presence is denied. It owns the noun that follows.
From: What Small Worship Erases →OpenArabic teaches words like حَصْر through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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