وَسِيلَةmeans

Example sentences

• وذكر كذلك الذين اتخذوا العلم وسيلة وغرضا لتحصيل ملذات الدنيا وحطامها الفاني،

  He also mentioned those who took knowledge as a means and a goal to acquire the pleasures of the fleeting world and its perishable goods.

  وَسِيلَةً — as a means. This noun is a second object describing what the knowledge was turned into: a means. Its bare, un-'the' ending marks it as indefinite, 'a means', and the form signals it as the complement of the taking.

  From: Knowledge and Humility →

• والتوكل والاستعانة للْعَبد لِأَنَّهُ هُوَ الْوَسِيلَة وَالطَّرِيق الَّذِي ينَال بِهِ مَقْصُوده ومطلوبه من الْعِبَادَة

  And reliance and seeking help are for the servant because they are the means and the path through which he attains his goals and desires in worship.

  الْوَسِيلَةُ — the means. This noun carries 'the' and serves as the description completing 'it is the means'. The definite predicate gives the sense of 'the very means', and it takes the plain subject ending in the equation with the pronoun.

  From: Worship and Repentance →