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Example sentences

• والذي نفس محمد بيده ما من كلم يكلم في سبيل الله إلا جاء يوم القيامة كهيئته يوم كلم،

  By the One in whose hand is Muhammad's soul, there is no wound inflicted in the Cause of Allah except that it will come on the Day of Resurrection in the same state it was when it was inflicted,

  سَبِيلِ — the Cause of. This is the first half of 'path of Allah' and the object of 'in', joined to its owner with no word for 'of'. The pairing supplies the 'of' by position; the whole means 'for God's cause'.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →

• والذي نفس محمد بيده لولا أن يشق على المسلمين ما قعدت خلاف سرية تغزو في سبيل الله أبدا،

  By the One in whose hand is Muhammad's soul, if it were not hard on the Muslims, I would never remain behind any expedition that fights in the cause of Allah, ever,

  سَبِيلِ — the cause of. This is the first half of 'path of Allah' and the object of 'in', joined to its owner with no word for 'of'. The pairing supplies the 'of'; the whole means 'for God's cause'.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →

• والذي نفس محمد بيده لوددت أن أغزو في سبيل الله فأقتل،

  By the One in whose hand is Muhammad's soul, I would love to fight in the cause of Allah and be killed,

  سَبِيلِ — the cause of. This is the first half of 'path of Allah' and the object of 'in', joined to its owner with no word for 'of'. The pairing supplies the 'of'; the whole means 'for God's cause'.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →

• يَصُدُّ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغِيهَا جُهْدُهُ عَوْجًا وَتَحْرِيفًا

  He turns people away from the way of God and, by his effort, seeks to bend and distort it.

  سَبِيلِ — way of. A noun in the genitive (set by the earlier 'from') that heads a possessive pairing with the divine name after it, 'the way of God'. As the first term it drops its own 'the' and takes definiteness from the owner that follows.

  From: Three States of the Heart →