رَمَضَانَRamadan

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ الصَّلَوَاتُ الْخَمْسُ وَالْجُمُعَةُ إِلَى الْجُمُعَةِ وَرَمَضَانُ إِلَى رَمَضَانَ مَكَفِّرَاتٌ لِمَا بَيْنَهُنَّ إِذَا اجْتُنِبَتِ الْكَبَائِرِ

  The Messenger of Allah said: The five prayers, Friday to Friday, and Ramadan to Ramadan are expiations for what is between them, if the major sins are avoided.

  رَمَضَانَ — Ramadan. A noun, the month name 'Ramadan', the endpoint of the span. As a proper name it resists the usual (genitive) ending and takes a single vowel instead, a feature of certain non-bending nouns.

  From: What Small Worship Erases →

• 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.

  رَمَضَانَ — Ramadan. A month name in the genitive, the final link of the possessive chain, owned by 'Zakat' before it. As a proper name it takes a special ending that resists the usual case-vowel, but its position after the head-noun is what marks it as the owner.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَتُقِيمُ الْصَّلَاةَ وَتُؤْتِي الْزَّكٰوَةَ وَتَصُومُ رَمَضَانَ

  and establish the prayer, and give the alms, and fast Ramadan

  رَمَضَان — Ramadan. A proper name 'Ramadan' in the object (accusative) form, the thing 'fast' acts on. Though a month-name, it functions here as the direct object of the fasting, marked accusative.

  From: Faith and Worship →

• وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّكَاةَ، وَتَصُومَ رَمَضَانَ، وَتَحُجَّ الْبَيْتَ إنْ اسْتَطَعْت إلَيْهِ سَبِيلًا

  And give the obligatory charity, fast during Ramadan, and perform the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to find a way to it.

  رَمَضَانَ — Ramadan. The object naming the time of the fasting. As a one-word proper name it does not take al-, yet here it functions as what the fasting covers, so it sits in the accusative. Its shape is one of those names that resists the usual tanwin ending.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →