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Example sentences

• لَيْسَ الْعجب من فَقير مِسْكين يحب محسنا إِلَيْهِ

  It is not astonishing from a poor, needy person to love one who is kind to him.

  مِسْكِينٍ — needy person. A second adjective trailing 'poor', genitive, indefinite to agree — 'wretchedly needy'. It deepens 'poor': utterly destitute.

  From: The Path to God's Love →

• إِنَّمَا الْعجب من محسن يحب فَقِيرا مِسْكينا

  The true wonder is that a kind one loves a poor, needy person.

  مِسْكِينًا — needy person. A second adjective trailing 'poor', accusative, indefinite to agree — 'wretchedly needy'. The wonder: a benefactor loving the utterly destitute — as God loves His servants.

  From: The Path to God's Love →

• الذين ليسوا من المصلين ولا من مطعمي المسكين

  Those who are not among those who pray, nor among those who feed the poor.

  الْمِسْكِينِ — the poor. This noun carries 'the' and is owned by the participle before it: the feeders of the poor one. As the possessed half it takes the genitive ending; Arabic uses the singular here as a generic class, 'the poor' as a kind.

  From: Prayer and Charity →

• الثانية ترك إطعام المسكين الذي هو من مراتب الإحسان للعبيد

  The second is abandoning feeding the poor, which is among the ranks of benevolence to the servants.

  الْمِسْكِينِ — the poor. This noun carries 'the' and is owned by 'feeding' before it: the feeding of the poor one. As the possessed half it takes the genitive ending; the singular here names the poor as a generic class.

  From: Prayer and Charity →