أَحْيَاءliving

Example sentences

• ألم نَجعَلُ الأرضَ كِفاتا، أحياءً وأمواتا

  Have We not made the earth a repository, for the living and the dead?

  أَحْيَاءً — for the living. This noun is in the accusative, working as a state-description naming who the container holds, 'the living', folding 'for the living' into an accusative noun. The indefinite shape keeps it general, so it is the first of a paired phrase spanning living and dead.

  From: Death and Decree →