دَوَاءٌremedy

Example sentences

• وما دواء هذه العلوم وعلمائها والعاملين بها علما وعقدا إلا الحريق والإعدام من الوجود

  And there is no remedy for these sciences, their scholars, and those who practice them in knowledge and belief except fire and annihilation from existence.

  دَوَاءُ — remedy. This noun is the subject of the denied existence — 'no REMEDY [exists]'. It also opens a possessive chain, owning the cluster of things named next (these sciences, their scholars...). Arabic lets the subject of a negated 'there is no' sentence stand bare like this.

  From: Revelation Over Philosophy →

• ورأيته دواء لأدواء النفس،

  And you saw it as a remedy for the ailments of the soul.

  دَوَاءً — as a remedy. An indefinite noun, 'a remedy', naming what the book was regarded as. It carries the ending that marks the second complement of a 'consider X to be Y' verb, the role English fills with 'as'.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →