صَالِحِpious

Example sentences

• وَطَرِيقُهُمَا بِمَعْزِلٍ عَنْ سُنَنِ السَّلَفِ الصَّالِحِ،

  And their path is apart from the practices of the pious predecessors,

  الصَّالِحِ — the pious. A describing word carrying 'al-' (the), trailing the noun it modifies and matching it in definiteness and form. It pins 'pious' onto the predecessors, the Arabic way of fastening an adjective to its noun by agreement.

  From: Guidance for the Seeker →