ظِلٌّshade

Example sentences

• والظل الذي ينزل على بيت المقدس شفاء من كل داء من جنان الجنة

  And the shade that descends upon Bayt al-Maqdis is a cure for every illness, from the gardens of Paradise.

  وَالظِّلُّ — And the shade. wa- = 'and'; al- = 'the'; zill means 'shade, shadow'; the '-u' ending marks it as the subject.

  From: Angels at al-Aqsa →

• لَهَا ظِلٌّ لَمْ تَأْتِ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ فَنَزَلْنَا عِنْدَهُ،

  It had a shade that the sun did not come upon, so we descended by it.

  ظِلٌّ — a shade. An indefinite noun, a patch of shade, whose trailing '-un' marks it indefinite and as the thing possessed in the 'it had shade' construction. It is the subject that the earlier 'for it' is asserting about. The indefinite tail does the job of English 'a'.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →