قَتْلmurder

Example sentences

• ثمَّ اجْتمع رَأْيهمْ على الْقَتْل

  Then they agreed upon murder.

  القَتْلِ — murder. In the genitive after 'upon', definite — killing him. The fatal resolution.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فَمِنْ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُمْ الْقَتْلُ أَنْفَى لِلْقَتْلِ، مَذْكُورٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقِصَاصِ حَيَاةٌ

  Among them their saying: 'Killing prevents killing' is mentioned in His saying: 'And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life.'

  الْقَتْلُ — killing. This is 'the killing', definite with 'al-', here the subject of a verbless saying. With no verb 'is', it simply pairs with the description that follows to mean 'killing is more...'. It takes the nominative as that subject.

  From: When Scripture Answers Proverbs →

• فَذَكَرَ مِنْهَا الشِّرْكَ بِاللَّهِ، وَالسِّحْرَ، وَقَتْلَ النَّفْسِ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ، وَأَكْلَ مَالِ الْيَتِيمِ، وَأَكْلَ الرِّبَا، وَالتَّوَلِّيَ يَوْمَ الزَّحْفِ، وَقَذْفَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ

  He mentioned among them: associating partners with Allah, sorcery, unjust killing, consuming the wealth of an orphan, usury, fleeing from the battlefield, and falsely accusing chaste, unaware, believing women - agreed upon by scholars.

  وَقَتْلَ — and killing. A fused 'and' plus a noun, 'and the killing', the head of an 'X of Y' chain, 'the killing of the soul'. It is another listed object and owns the noun that follows.

  From: What Small Worship Erases →

• مِمَّا فِيهِ حَدٌّ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَالْقَتْلِ وَالزِّنَا وَالسَّرِقَةِ،

  which have prescribed punishment in this world, such as killing, fornication, and theft,

  الْقَتْلِ — the killing. A noun with 'the', 'the killing', the first example, held in the (genitive) form by the 'like' before it. It heads the sample list.

  From: What Small Worship Erases →

• وقال عليه الصلاة والسلام إن لله عبادا يضن بهم عن القتل والسقم،

  The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Indeed, God has servants who He spares from killing and illness.

  الْقَتْلِ — the killing. A noun with 'the', 'the killing', held in the (genitive) form by the 'from' before it. It names one harm they are spared.

  From: Health as a Blessing →