حَوْلpower

Example sentences

• وإلا فالدولة لعدوه عليه، ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العليّ العظيم

  Otherwise, the upper hand belongs to his enemy over him, and there is no power or strength except with Allah, the Most High, the Great.

  حَوْلَ — power. 'Might / capacity to change things', accusative without tanwin under the 'no' of total denial — 'no power at all'. The bare accusative is the signature of this categorical 'there is none'.

  From: How Satan Exploits Weakness →

• وأكثر من لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله ،

  And frequently say 'There is no power nor strength except by God,'

  حَوْلَ — power. This noun, 'power, strength to act', sits in the bare ending demanded by the absolute 'no' before it, with no al- and no spoken case sound: 'no power'. Arabic uses this stripped shape after the la of total denial to declare the thing wholly absent.

  From: True Devotion →