وُقُوعoccurrence

Example sentences

• وَيَأْمُرُهُ عِنْدَ وُقُوعِ الشُّبْهَةِ بِاسْتِعْمَالِ الأَحْوَطِ فِي كَفِّ الْهَوَى

  And it will instruct him, when in doubt, to use the safer option to curb desire.

  وُقُوعِ — occurrence of. 'The happening of' — first half of the pair after 'at the time of'; genitive, handing definiteness to the next word.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →

• ومن وقوعه صحة وقوع الآخر فحسن الاستدلال بأحدهما على الآخر

  And from the occurrence of one, the validity of the other follows, making it reasonable to use one as evidence for the other.

  وُقُوعِهِ — the occurrence of one. This verbal noun names the act of happening as a thing, with an attached pronoun pointing back to one of the two matters. Built from a verb, it lets Arabic speak of 'its occurring'; it is governed by the preposition before it.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →

• ومن وقوعه صحة وقوع الآخر فحسن الاستدلال بأحدهما على الآخر

  And from the occurrence of one, the validity of the other follows, making it reasonable to use one as evidence for the other.

  وُقُوعِ — occurrence. This verbal noun names occurrence and is owned by 'soundness' before it, while itself owning 'the other' after it: the soundness of the occurrence of the other. Each link sits directly against the next with no word for 'of'.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →

• العاقل يرى بنور فكره عواقب الأمور قبل وقوعها، فيتجنب ما يخاف سوء عاقبته، ويسارع إلى ما يرجو حسن عاقبته

  "The wise person sees, with the light of his thought, the consequences of matters before they occur. He avoids what he fears will have a bad outcome, and hastens toward what he hopes will have a good outcome."

  وُقُوعِهَا — their occurrence. The object of the time word 'before', so it stands in the possessive case, and the -ha on its end means 'their', pointing back to the matters. The noun and its 'their' form an 'of' link, 'their occurrence', the point before which the wise one sees.

  From: Think Before You Act →