حِفْظٌ preservation in Arabic
حِفْظٌ is how you say “preservation” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
تُبنى الأحكامُ على حفظِ خمسةٍ تُعَدُّ أُسَّ النظام الدِّينِ، والنَّفسِ، والعقلِ، والنَّسلِ، والمالِ
Judgments are based on the preservation of five essential values: religion, life, intellect, lineage, and wealth.
حِفْظِ the preservation
An action-noun, 'the preserving,' in the -i form after 'on,' heading an 'of' pair with 'five.' The rulings rest on guarding five things — listed below.
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وحفظُها يكون على ثلاث درجات الضَّرورياتِ التي لا يقومُ العيشُ بدونها،
Preservation occurs on three levels: necessities that life cannot go on without,
وَحِفْظُهَا and its preservation
An action-noun, 'and the preserving of them,' with 'them' for the five foundations — the subject. Joined by 'and,' it opens a new point: that preserving happens on three levels, as the rest lays out.
وهو منطبق على حفظ الكتاب والسنة،
and it applies to the preservation of the Book and the Sunnah.
حِفْظِ preservation
Genitive after the preposition, this is a verbal noun ('safeguarding') that also heads a possessive: 'the preservation OF the Book'. So it carries two roles — object of 'onto' and owner of the noun to come. Verbal nouns like this turn the act of preserving into a thing.