الشَّيْطَانِSatan

Example sentences

• وَحَجَرًا حَجَرًا أَيْسَرُ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ مُكَابَدَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْعَاقِلِ

  Removing it stone by stone is easier for Satan than contending with the rational believer.

  الشَّيْطَانِ — Satan. This noun stands in the (genitive) under the preceding 'upon/for'; its al- makes it definite, naming Satan. It is the party for whom the task is easier. Its case is the grammatical effect of the preposition before it.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• لِأَنَّهُ إِذَا كَانَ مُؤْمِنًا عَاقِلًا ذَا بَصِيرَةٍ فَهُوَ أَثْقَلُ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ

  For if he is a believing, rational person with insight, he is harder for the devil than the mountains.

  الشَّيْطَانِ — the devil. This noun stands in the (genitive) under the preceding 'upon/for'; its al- makes it definite, naming the devil, and its al- assimilates in sound to the following consonant (a sun-letter effect). It is the party for whom the believer is hard. Its case is governed by the preposition before it.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• وَهِيَ شَجَرَةُ الشَّيْطَانِ

  And it is the tree of the Devil.

  الشَّيْطَانِ — the Devil. This name is the owned-of term and takes the genitive ending the pairing demands, naming whose tree it is and closing the unit.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →