مِيزَانٌscale

Example sentences

• اجعل ليلك ميزانًا لنهارك ثلاث دقائق للمحاسبة، دقيقة للاستغفار، ودقيقة لوعدٍ واضح تتعامل معه كعهد

  Make your night a scale for your day: three minutes for accountability, one minute for seeking forgiveness, and one minute for a clear promise you treat as a covenant.

  مِيزَانًا — a scale. 'mizan' = 'scale, balance'. The '-an' ending marks it as the object, 'a scale'.

  From: On Sincerity →

• إذ المقاصدُ ميزانٌ يعيدُ ترتيبَ الأولوياتِ ويَجمعُ بين نصٍّ مُحكَمٍ وعقلٍ راشدٍ وواقعٍ مُتغيِّر

  For the objectives are a scale that reorders priorities and integrates clear text, sound intellect, and changing reality.

  مِيزَانٌ — are a scale. 'a balance / scale,' indefinite (the -un), the predicate: 'the objectives ARE a scale.' The metaphor frames the higher aims as a weighing-instrument; two relative clauses next say what it does.

  From: Five Objectives of Islamic Law →

• فصوتت ميزان شهوات زليخا بذلك الصبي،

  The scales of Zuleikha's desires tipped because of that boy.

  مِيزَانُ — the scales. This noun is the subject of the verb before it and opens a possessive pairing, 'the balance of the desires'. As the doer it carries the -u subject ending, and as the first noun of the pairing it takes its definiteness from what follows rather than from its own article.

  From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →