مَرْءٌperson

Example sentences

• من أدبِه أن يلزمَ المرءُ تواضعًا معرفيًّا يرى الدليلَ، ويدركُ حدودَ فهمه، ويستحضر أن المقاصدَ أوسعُ من جزئيةٍ واحدة

  Part of its etiquette is that a person maintains intellectual humility: seeing the evidence, recognizing the limits of his understanding, and remembering that the objectives are broader than a single issue.

  المَرْءُ — one. 'the person / one,' a generic noun for any individual — the subject of 'keep to' (the -u). It comes after its verb, the normal order; the everyman who should hold to humility.

  From: Mercy in Disagreement →

• فَلْيَكُنْ الْمَرْءُ مَعَ أَهْلِ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ

  Then let a person be among the people who obey Allah.

  الْمَرْءُ — the person. A literary noun 'the person' wearing 'the', used generically for 'a person in general'. The definite article here does not point to one specific man; Arabic often uses 'the' for the whole class, where English would drop it.

  From: Silence and Supplication →