شَيْخshaykh

Example sentences

• وَقَد تَقَدّم مَا ذكره الْمَشَايِخ من نفي التَّشْبِيه والتعطيل

  And what the shaykhs have mentioned regarding the negation of likening and nullification has already been addressed.

  الْمَشَايِخُ — the shaykhs. The doers of 'mentioned', nominative, arriving after the verb. A broken (internal) plural of 'shaykh' — the vowels change inside rather than adding an ending.

  From: Worship God Alone →

• وَفِي ثَبْتِ كُتُبِ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ، وَكُتُبِ الْحُمَيْدِيِّ، وَكُتُبِ شَيْخِنَا عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ،

  And in the register are the books of Abu Hanifa, the books of al-Humaydi, and the books of our sheikh Abd al-Wahhab.

  شَيْخِنَا — our sheikh. A noun with the 'our' pronoun attached, naming the teacher. The attached possessor makes it definite and links the title to the speakers' group, and it heads its own 'of' link to the name that follows. Arabic glues the possessor on rather than using a separate 'our'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• ويدخل فيهم الملوك والمشايخ وأهل الديوان،

  This includes kings, sheikhs, and those in administrative offices.

  وَالْمَشَايِخُ — and sheikhs. The wa- adds a second group, and the 'the' after it keeps the noun definite, 'and the sheikhs'. It is coordinated with 'the kings' as another subject of the same verb.

  From: Obedience to God and Authority →