صَلَوَاتٌprayers

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ الصَّلَوَاتُ الْخَمْسُ وَالْجُمُعَةُ إِلَى الْجُمُعَةِ وَرَمَضَانُ إِلَى رَمَضَانَ مَكَفِّرَاتٌ لِمَا بَيْنَهُنَّ إِذَا اجْتُنِبَتِ الْكَبَائِرِ

  The Messenger of Allah said: The five prayers, Friday to Friday, and Ramadan to Ramadan are expiations for what is between them, if the major sins are avoided.

  الصَّلَوَاتُ — the prayers. A noun with 'the', the subject of a long verbless statement listing what wipes away sins. It is a sound plural, 'the prayers', and the items that follow are added to it before the predicate arrives.

  From: What Small Worship Erases →

• أُولَـئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ

  Those, upon them are blessings from their Lord and mercy.

  صَلَوَاتٌ — blessings. An indefinite plural noun ('blessings') standing as the delayed subject ('upon them ARE blessings'). It comes after its prepositional predicate, a normal order when the comment is fronted.

  From: Patience and God's Help →