بُدَّmust

Example sentences

• 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.

  بُدَّ — need. This noun completes the 'no escape' idiom begun by the previous word. It sits in the accusative because the categorical 'no' governs the noun directly after it into that form, the standard way Arabic builds 'there is absolutely no X'.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →

• فَلا بُدَّ مَعَ إِخْلَاصِ النِيَّةِ مِنَ العِلْمِ،

  So sincerity of intention must be accompanied by knowledge.

  بُدَّ — necessity. This noun is the thing whose existence 'la' denies, literally 'no escape / no way out'. Together 'la budda' is the standard Arabic way of saying something is unavoidable; the noun sits in the accusative because this kind of total negation puts the denied noun in that case.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• فَلَا بُدَّ مِنْ إِخْلَاصِ النِّيَّةِ فِي الْعَمَلِ وَمُوَافَقَتِهَا لِمَرَادِ الشَّارِعِ

  Sincerity of intention in action is necessary, and it must conform to the Lawgiver's intent.

  بُدَّ — it is necessary. The noun whose existence 'la' rules out, literally 'no escape'. As part of 'la budda min' it expresses that the following thing is unavoidable; the total negation puts this noun in the accusative.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• وَأَنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ تَقْيِيدِ السَّنَةِ وَجَمْعِهَا فِي الْكُتُبِ فَتَمَّتْ عَمَلِيَّةُ الْجَمْعِ وَالْكِتَابَةِ وَالتَّدْوِينِ

  And that it was necessary to fix the prophetic practice and to collect it in books; thus the process of collecting, writing, and recording was completed.

  بُدَّ — it is necessary. The noun whose existence 'la' rules out, literally 'no escape'. As part of 'la budda min' it expresses that the following act is unavoidable; the total negation puts this noun in the accusative.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• فَإِنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْهَا،

  So indeed these things are indispensable.

  بُدَّ — necessity. A noun meaning 'escape/avoidance' that, with the negator before it, forms the set phrase 'there is no avoiding it'. In this idiom it takes a fixed object-case ending as the thing being negated outright. The two words together express indispensability.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →