عُبُورٍright of passage

Example sentences

• وَقَالْوُا مَا لَكِ عِندَنَا مِنْ عُبُورٍ،

  And they said: What right of passage do you have with us?

  عُبُورٍ — right of passage. An indefinite noun, 'passage', governed by the preceding particle and so genitive. Left indefinite and emphatically negated, it reads as 'no passage whatever'. The word names the very thing the speakers claim the revelation has no right to.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →