نَاسَpeople

Example sentences

• وَبَعْدُ، فَإِنَّ النَّاسَ يَتَفَاوَتُونَ فِي الْعَقْلَيْنِ وَجَوْهَرِهِ وَمِقْدَارِ مَا أَعْطَوْا مِنْهُ،

  Furthermore, people differ in the two intellects, in its very essence, and in the amount of it that they were given.

  النَّاسَ — the people. This noun is the subject seized by the preceding emphatic 'indeed', which is why it carries the accusative ending; its al- makes it definite and general, 'people' as a whole. It waits for the verb that follows to say what people do. Its accusative is purely the grammatical effect of the particle, not an object role.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →