حاضرpresent

Example sentences

• وإذا كانوا يقولون الوقت الحاضر والساعة الراهنة وإن لم يفعلا ذلك فكيف يمتنع أن يقولوا ماء دافق وعيشة راضية

  And if they say 'the present time' and 'the current hour' without those phrases acting, how could they refrain from saying 'gushing water' and 'contented life'?

  الحَاضِرَ — present. An adjective made definite by al- to agree with 'the time', 'the present'. It looks like an active doer-form yet merely describes the time as current, an example parallel to the gushing-water case.

  From: Creating Life from Nothing →