أَمْر matter in Arabic

اشْتَدَّ الْجِهَادُ وَصَعُبَ الأَمْرُ بِخِلافِ جِهَادِ الْكُفَّارِ

The struggle becomes intense and the matter becomes difficult, unlike the struggle against the disbelievers.

الأَمْرُ the matter

al- = 'the'; amr means 'matter, affair'; the '-u' ending marks it as the subject.

From Resisting Temptation

ومع كل فجرٍ جديد، اجعل نيتك أوّل عملك، وابتسم سرًّا حين تنتصر على نفسك في أمر صغير؛

With each new dawn, make your intention your first action, and smile secretly when you overcome yourself in a small matter.

أَمْرٍ a matter

'amr' = 'matter, affair'. No 'al-', so 'a matter'.

From Small Daily Habits

مالم يُخرجهُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى إِسْقَاط الْأَمر وَالنَّهْي وَالثَّوَاب وَالْعِقَاب والوعد والوعيد

As long as it does not lead him to dismiss command and prohibition, reward and punishment, promise and warning.

الْأَمْرِ command

The second half of that 'of' pairing — what is being annulled — so it sits in the genitive. It opens a run of matched opposites (command and prohibition, reward and punishment, promise and threat) all governed by that one 'annulment of'.

From Worship God Alone

الذِّكرُ النافعُ يجمعُ ثلاثةَ أمور

Beneficial remembrance encompasses three aspects:

أُمُورٍ aspects

'matters, aspects', genitive plural counted by 'three'. A broken plural; after numbers three to ten the thing counted goes plural and genitive like this.

From Words That Nourish the Heart

تقول لا إلهَ إلا الله فتقطعُ تبعيّةَ القلب لِما سوى الله، ثم تُترجمها فعلًا تُقدِّم أمرَه على رغبتك

You say: 'There is no god but Allah' and cut the heart's dependency on anything besides Allah, then translate it into action: you prioritize His command over your desire.

أَمْرَهُ His command

'His command' — 'amr' with 'His' attached, accusative as the object given precedence. The 'His' points to God.

From Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart

لله سُبْحَانَهُ على عَبده أَمر أمره بِهِ

To Allah, glory be to Him, belongs a command He has given to His servant.

أَمْرٌ a command

This is the actual subject, 'a command', held back to the end after the fronted 'belongs-to-God' predicate. Indefinite and in the '-u' ending, it is what God has as His due; Arabic delays the subject like this to spotlight the predicate first.

From Accepting God's Decree

وَبَيْنَهُمَا أُمُورٌ مُشْتَبِهَاتٌ لَا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ النَّاسِ،

and between them are doubtful matters, which many people do not know.

أُمُورٌ matters

A broken plural, 'matters', the subject held back after the fronted 'between them'. Indefinite and in the '-u' ending, it introduces a third, in-between category.

From The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey

وإن كان مما لا يدرك بالاجتهاد كالأمور التي طريقها النقل وتفسير الألفاظ اللغوية فلا يجوز الكلام فيه إلا بنقل صحيح من جهة المعتمدين من أهله

And if it is not reachable through juristic effort, like matters of transmission and linguistic interpretation, then speaking on it is not allowed except with authentic transmission from trusted authorities.

كَالْأُمُورِ like matters

The 'ka-' opens examples — 'such as the matters...' — the broken plural narrowed by the relative clause next: matters whose only road is transmission.

From Quran Interpretation and Debate

وربما أدى الأمر بالشاعر إلى التجاوز إلى الكفر،

And perhaps it leads the poet to go so far as to disbelief,

الْأَمْرُ the matter

This is the subject of 'leads', nominative — 'the matter / affair' of poetry-making. It is what drives the poet toward the bad end. Its plain ending marks it as the doer.

From Sincere Preaching

وفاسق الكتبة إليه المنتهى في السرق وعاقبة أمرهم وبيلة من الضرب والمصادرة والفقر

And the dissolute scribes reach the pinnacle of theft, and their final outcome is disaster with beatings, confiscation, and poverty.

أَمْرِهِمْ of their matter

This completes 'the outcome of their affair', with attached '-hum' = 'their', in the genitive as owner. The pronoun ties the end-result to the corrupt scribes. So 'how their business ends up'.

From Intention in Islam

السابع أن رد الماء إلى الاحليل أو الصلب بعد خروجه منه غير معروف ولا هو أمر معتاد جرت به القدرة وإن كان مقدورًا للرب تعالى

The seventh is that returning water to the urethra or backbone after it has departed is neither known nor a usual occurrence allowed by power, even if it is something the Lord Almighty can do.

أَمْرٌ an occurrence

This noun 'a thing/occurrence' is the predicate of 'nor is it a thing', indefinite, in the plain ending. It is described by the adjective and relative clause that follow, characterizing the returning as an unusual matter.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

وهو سبحانه إنما يستدل على أمر واقع ولا بد إما قد وقع ووجد أو سيقع

And He, glorified be He, uses evidence only for an actual matter that must have either already occurred or will occur.

أَمْرٍ an actual matter

This noun lacks 'the' and ends in the two-dot mark that signals an indefinite noun, so it means 'a matter', some matter, not a known one. Arabic shows indefiniteness by this ending rather than by a separate word like English 'a'.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

ثم أخبر سبحانه أنه تنزيل من رب العالمين وذلك يتضمن أمورًا

Then Allah informed that it is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds, which entails several things:

أُمُورًا several things

A plural noun 'matters/things', indefinite, standing as the object of 'entails'. Its object ending marks it as what is contained; its indefiniteness leaves the number open before the list specifies them.

From God's Eternal Word

ونقل فكرته في مجاري الخلق والأمر

And he directed his thoughts through the courses of creation and command.

وَالْأَمْرِ and command

An 'and' fused to a noun 'command/affair', a second owning noun joined to the chain, 'and command'. It stands in the owner form, pairing the realm of creation with the realm of divine command.

From Proof in All Creation

أي إن كان نطقكم حقيقة وهو أمر موجود لا تمارون فيه ولا تشكون

Meaning, if your speech is a reality, which is something you do not dispute or doubt.

أَمْرٌ something

An indefinite noun 'a thing/matter', the predicate of 'it is', 'it is something'. Its subject-form ending marks it as the predicate; the adjective that follows will sharpen it.

From Proof in All Creation

وقد رأيت ما آل أمره إليه من الحط عليه، والهجر والتضليل والتكفير والتكذيب بحق وبباطل،

And I have seen what his affair came to of criticism against him, abandonment, accusations of misguidance and disbelief, and denial, both rightly and wrongly,

أَمْرُهُ his situation

This noun, his affair, is the subject of 'came to', in the nominative, with the possessor attached pointing back to the man being discussed. The suffix tracks whose affair it is, so it reads 'his situation came to'.

From Unity Over Partisanship

عجبت لمن يعجب بصورته وينسى مبدأ أمره

I am amazed at the one who admires his appearance and forgets his origins.

أَمْرِهِ his matter

A noun 'affair/matter' with an attached 'his' fused on, closing the 'beginning of his affair' pair. It is the owner in the chain, and the possessor is carried wholly by that ending.

From A Path to Mercy

فإذا تذكر الإنسان مبدأ أمره ومنتهاه، زال عنه العجب والغرور،

Thus, when a person remembers his origin and end, his vanity and arrogance disappear,

أَمْرِهِ his matter

A noun 'affair' with an attached 'his' fused on, closing the 'beginning of his affair' pair as the owner. The possessor rides on the suffix alone.

From A Path to Mercy

فالعاقل من يتفكر في أول أمره وآخره، فيستحي من الله تعالى أن يعصيه،

The wise one is he who reflects on his beginning and his end, and feels shy before Allah to disobey Him,

أَمْرِهِ his matter

A noun 'affair' with an attached 'his' fused on, closing the 'first of his affair' pair as the owner. The possessor rides on the suffix.

From A Path to Mercy

فالعاقل من يملك نفسه عند الغضب، ويكظم غيظه، ويتذكر عاقبة الأمر

The wise person is one who controls himself when angry, suppresses his rage, and recalls the consequences.

ٱلْأَمْرِ the affair

The owning noun closing the 'outcome of the matter' pair. Its 'the' makes the phrase definite, naming the affair as what that outcome belongs to.

From Restraining Anger

ترى الرجل يقدم على أمر يظن فيه لذة أو منفعة، فينغمس فيه،

You see a man rushing into something he thinks brings pleasure or benefit, and he immerses himself in it,

أَمْرٍ something

The object of the preposition, so it takes the possessive case, and with no 'the' it stays indefinite, 'some matter'. Its indefiniteness is what lets the following verb describe it without a relative word.

From Think Before You Act

فَكيف لَا يسلم المستعيذ بِاللَّه من الشَّيْطَان وَالْملك يذود عَنهُ بِأَمْر الْملك الديَّان

So how can the one who seeks refuge with Allah not be safe from Satan, while the angel wards him off by the command of the Sovereign, the Just?

بِأَمْرِ by the command

The attached particle governs the next noun into the prepositional form and ties the warding to its authorization: it marks by what it is done. That noun also opens an 'of' pairing with the word after it.

From Ten Daily Supplications

واستكفائه ذلك الأمر واستتار في الغار،

And his seeking help for that matter and his concealment in the cave,

الأَمْرَ task

This noun is the object of the action-noun 'seeking-sufficiency-for', so it sits in the object form, the thing he sought help with. The 'the' makes it the specific, defined matter.

From Trust in God

إلا أنه لم يكشف لك كل الأمر،

However, it did not disclose to you the whole matter.

الأَمْرِ matter

A definite noun, 'the matter', the owned half of 'all the matter', carrying the owned-by ending. It is what the totality word measures, the whole affair that was not fully revealed.

From Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives