الْقُفِّpit

Example sentences

• فَدَخَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَجَلَسَ عَنْ يَمِيْنِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَعَهُ فِي الْقُفِّ،

  So Abu Bakr entered and sat to the right of the Messenger of God, beside him in the pit.

  الْقُفِّ — the pit. The al- here makes the noun definite, 'the' rather than 'a', and its oblique ending is forced on it by the preposition sitting just before. Definiteness frames it as a specific, already-known thing, while that case-vowel is Arabic's way of showing the preposition governs it - a job English does purely by position.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →

• فَجَلَسَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الْقُفِّ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ،

  Then he sat with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, on the seat to his left.

  الْقُفِّ — the seat. The al- here makes the noun definite, 'the' rather than 'a', and its oblique ending is forced on it by the preposition sitting just before. Definiteness frames it as a specific, already-known thing, while that case-vowel is Arabic's way of showing the preposition governs it - a job English does purely by position.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →