حَيَاءmodesty

Example sentences

• انبَعَثَ من العَبْد قُوَّة الْحيَاء

  A sense of modesty arises from the servant.

  الحَيَاءِ — of modesty. The owner completing 'the strength of modesty', genitive, definite — shyness before God. The capacity that this disclosure awakens.

  From: Humility Before the Divine →

• فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء

  His inner state will appear on his face as light, brightness, and modesty.

  وَحَيَاءً — and modesty. wa- (and) on a third indefinite noun in the object-style ending, completing the series 'light, brightness, and modesty' as further forms the inner state takes. Its ending keeps it in step with the others.

  From: Preparing for Judgment Day →

• فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته

  So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...

  وَحَيَاءً — and modesty. The wa- closes the list with its final member, again in the accusative-of-manner matching the others. Arabic marks every item of such a series with the same case, so this last 'and...' keeps the pattern intact and rounds off the set of guises.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →