مُشْرِكُونَpolytheists

Example sentences

• انطلق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه حتى سبقوا المشركين إلى بدر وجاء المشركون،

  The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and his companions set out until they reached Badr before the polytheists, and the polytheists came.

  المُشْرِكُونَ — the polytheists. This is the sound plural of 'polytheist' carrying 'the', and it is the subject of 'came', placed after the verb. This plural's subject-form ending differs from its object-form; the definite article marks the known group.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

• فدنا المشركون،

  The polytheists approached.

  المُشْرِكُونَ — the polytheists. This is the sound plural of 'polytheist' carrying 'the', the subject of 'drew near', placed after the verb in its subject-form ending. The definite article marks the known opposing group.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

• ﴿وَمَا يُؤْمِنُ أَكْثَرُهُمْ بِاللَّهِ إِلَّا وَهُمْ مُشْرِكُونَ﴾

  Most of them do not believe in Allah; they are polytheists.

  مُشْرِكُونَ — polytheists. An active plural participle, a noun-like word naming the doers of a state: those who set up partners with God. As the predicate of the 'while they are...' clause, it pins the polytheism onto them as an ongoing condition.

  From: What Worship Really Means →