الْعِبَّادُservants

Example sentences

• وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَتَزَيَّنْ الْعِبَّادُ بِزِينَةٍ أَبْلَغِ فِيمَا عِنْدِي مِنَ الزُّهْدِ فِي الدُّنْيَا،

  And know that the servants have never adorned themselves with an ornament more effective, in my view, than asceticism in the world.

  الْعِبَّادُ — the servants. This is a plural noun carrying 'the', a broken plural whose whole inner shape changes rather than just adding an ending. It is the doer of the reflexive verb before it, the servants who adorn themselves. The 'the' marks them as the known class of devotees.

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