ثَانٍsecond

Example sentences

• والثاني أنه تكلم به حقيقة لقوله ﴿مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ﴾

  The second is that He truly spoke it because He said: 'From the Lord of the worlds.'

  وَالثَّانِي — the second. An 'and' plus 'the' attached to the ordinal 'second', 'and the second'. Arabic ordinals behave like adjectives and here stand on their own as 'the second (point)', the noun 'point' understood from context.

  From: God's Eternal Word →

• وَقِسْمٌ ثَانٍ يَشْهَدُونَ رُبُوبِيَّةَ الْحَقِّ

  And a second category testifies to the Lordship of the Truth.

  ثَانٍ — second. An ordinal adjective 'second' describing the preceding noun and agreeing with it in indefiniteness. It narrows the category to the second one in a series. It modifies its noun rather than acting on its own.

  From: Trust and Piety →

• حَتَّى يَدْخُلُ فِي النَّوْعِ الثَّانِيِّ مِنْ مَعْنَى الْعَبْدِ وَهُوَ الْعَبْدُ بِمَعْنَى الْعَابِدِ

  until it enters the second sense of the word "slave", which is the sense of "worshipper".

  الثَّانِيِّ — the second. An ordinal adjective 'the second', describing the sense just named. It follows its noun and copies its definiteness and genitive ending, the matching marks tying the 'second' to that noun.

  From: What Worship Really Means →