قَائِلٌsayer

Example sentences

• ولله دَرُّ القائل

  By Allah, how excellent is the one who said:

  القَائِلِ — the one who said:. Genitive owner of 'excellence' — 'the sayer, the one who said it'; an active participle. Praising whoever spoke the coming line.

  From: Avoiding Scholarly Disputation →

• كَمَا قَالَ القَائِلُ وَكُنتُ امْرَأً مِنْ جُنْدِ إِبْلِيسِ

  As the speaker said, I was one of Iblis's troops.

  القَائِلُ — the speaker. A definite noun in the nominative serving as the delayed subject of 'said'; Arabic let the verb come first and names the doer here. With al- making it definite, it identifies who is being quoted, the speaker.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• فَإِنْ قَالَ قَائِلٌ ذِكْرُ حِكَايَاتِ الْحُمْقَىٰ وَالْمَغْفِلِينَ يُوجِبُ الضَّحْكَ،

  If someone says: telling the stories of fools and the gullible causes laughter,

  قَائِلٌ — one who says. A noun built from a verb (a doer-noun, 'a sayer / someone who says'), the indefinite subject of the saying verb before it. Being indefinite, it reads 'some sayer', the unnamed objector the conditional sets up.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →