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طَالِبٌ seeker in Arabic

طَالِبٌ is how you say “seeker” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

أما بعد فإِنك الطالب الصادق، والمريد المحقق

As for what follows, indeed you are the sincere seeker and the true aspirant.

الطَّالِبُ the seeker

A definite noun, 'the seeker', carrying the attached 'the'. It serves as the description completing 'you are...', and its definiteness frames the addressee as the seeker in the full, marked sense.

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More example sentences

لِيَزُولَ عَنْ الطَّالِبِ لِلْهِدَايَةِ وَسُلُوكِ الصِّرَاطِ وَحْشَةُ تَفَرُّدِهِ عَنْ أَهْلِ زَمَانِهِ وَبَنُو جِنْسِهِ،

So that the seeker of guidance and follower of the path may be freed from the fear of being singled out from his contemporaries and peers.

الطَّالِبِ the seeker

Governed by the preceding 'away from', this noun takes the genitive ending and names the one the unease is lifted from: the seeker. Its definite al- (whose sound assimilates into the following sun letter) marks a specific, typical seeker. Two further 'of' phrases will hang off it to spell out what he seeks.

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