حِفْظِpreserving of

Example sentences

• أَوْ نَالَ الْقَضَاءَ فَسَعَى فِي حِفْظِ مَنْزِلَتِهِ،

  Or he attained the judgeship and strove to preserve his position,

  حفظِ — preserving of. An action-noun sitting in the form the preposition before it demands, opening an 'of' pairing with the word that follows. Set directly beside its partner with no separate 'of', it takes its definiteness from the owner ahead and names the act of preserving.

  From: Guidance for the Seeker →

• رَأَى الْعُلَمَاءُ وَالْأَئِمَّةُ النُجَبَاءُ أَنَّ الاِعْتِمَادَ عَلَى الْحِفْظِ وَحْدِهِ لَا يَكْفِي،

  The scholars and the eminent imams concluded that relying on memorization alone is not sufficient.

  الْحِفْظِ — the memorization. The definite object of 'on', hence genitive after that relator. With 'al-' it names what is relied upon, memorisation, the thing the scholars judged insufficient on its own.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• وَكَّلَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِحِفْظِ زَكَاةِ رَمَضَانَ،

  The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, entrusted me with the safekeeping of the Zakat of Ramadan.

  بِحِفْظِ — with safekeeping. A preposition 'with/by means of' fused to a verbal noun, so one word carries both the link and the action-as-noun. It marks the safekeeping as the thing the speaker was entrusted with, and it heads a possessive pairing with the noun after it.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• فَهُوَ بِالْحِفْظِ أَوْلَى لِأَنَّ الْبَيْتَ الْمَعْمُورَ مَعْمُورٌ بِعِبَادَةِ الْمَلَائِكَةِ

  So he is more deserving of preservation, for the Much-Frequented House is filled with the worship of the angels.

  بِالْحِفْظِ — with preservation. The front 'bi-' here marks the respect or measure in which the heart is judged: 'more deserving WITH RESPECT TO preservation'. It governs the following definite noun in the genitive ending and ties the worthiness to its specific area.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →