وَعْظِpreaching

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ رَأَى اِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِ أَنَّ التَّصْنِيفُ فِي فَنِّ الْوَعْظِ يُكْمِلُ مَجَالِسَهُ؛

  Then Ibn al-Jawzi held that writing in the art of preaching complements his sermons.

  الْوَعْظِ — of preaching. The owning half of the 'art of preaching' pairing — it is what the art belongs to. As the second noun in that side-by-side possessive, it sits in the after-a-possessor ('of') case, and it is what makes the whole 'the art of...' phrase count as definite.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ أَتَى بَعْدَ أَنْ فَرَغَ مِنْ خُطْبَتِهِ بِرَقَائِقٍ مِنَ الْوَعْظِ،

  Then indeed he came, after he had finished his sermon, with gentle admonitions.

  الْوَعْظِ — the admonition. A noun made definite by al- 'the'. It sits in the genitive because the preposition before it requires that ending, and together they name the broad category that the admonitions were drawn from.

  From: Public Preaching →