فَقْرَpoverty

Example sentences

• قَالَ الله الشَّيْطَان يَعدكُم الْفقر ويأمركم بالفحشاء

  Allah said: 'Satan threatens you with poverty and commands you to immorality.'

  الفَقْرَ — with poverty. This noun is the thing being threatened, so it sits in the object (receiving) form even though English routes it through 'with'. Arabic lets this verb take its content directly as a plain object, which is why no linking word appears before it.

  From: Adam's Warning →

• وَقِيلَ يَعِدُكُمْ الْفَقْرَ فِي الْبَذْلِ وَالْعَطَاءِ فِي مَرْضَاةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ

  And it was said, poverty leads you to spend and to give in seeking the pleasure of God, Glorified and Exalted.

  الْفقر — poverty. This noun wears 'the' and stands as what the verb acts upon. It is definite and sits as the thing being promised or led, completing the verb's reach.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →