صَّبْرِpatience

Example sentences

• وَجَعَلَ سُبْحَانَهُ الإِمَامَةَ فِي الدِّينِ مَنُوطَةً بِالصَّبْرِ وَالْيَقِينِ

  And He, exalted be He, made leadership in religion dependent on patience and certainty.

  بِالصَّبْرِ — by patience. The bi- prefix marks what the dependence rests on ('on/by'), with a definite noun of patience after it. The preposition forces the genitive on that noun and names the first thing leadership hinges upon.

  From: Patience and God's Help →

• وَالصَّبْرِ وَالْجُزْعِ ضِدَّانِ

  Patience and agitation are opposites.

  وَالصَّبْرِ — and the patience. wa- here opens the sentence and marks this noun as the first of a pair being contrasted, with 'the patience' made definite. The conjunction sets up a two-item topic whose shared comment ('opposites') comes at the end.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →