رَقِيقservant

Example sentences

• فجاءنى بعد حين فقال يا عبد الله أدّ إلى أجرى، فقلت كل ما ترى من أجرك من الإبل والبقر والغنم والرقيق

  After some time, he returned to me and said: 'O Servant of Allah, return my wages to me.' I said: 'Look at everything you see; it is all from your wages: camels, cows, sheep, and servants.'

  وَالرَّقِيقِ — and the servants. This joins the connector wa- to a noun in the 'of' (genitive) ending, 'and the servants'. The wa- closes the livestock-and-property list, the last item still governed by the earlier 'of'.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →