Arabic vocabulary

أصلprinciple in Arabic

أصل is how you say “principle” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

خُلاصةُ الطريق أصلان أن تُعبَدَ اللهُ وحده، وأن تُعبَدَه بما شَرَع
The essence of the path is two principles: that you worship Allah alone, and that you worship Him with what He has prescribed.
أَصْلَانِ — two principles. The DUAL — 'two foundations', a form English has to spell out with 'two'. Arabic instead folds 'exactly two' into the noun's own -ani ending; it stands here as the nominative predicate, 'are two roots'.
From: Turning Daily Words into Worship →

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