Arabic vocabulary

معصيةsin in Arabic

معصية is how you say “sin” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَلِهَذَا قَالَ أَئِمَّة الْمُسلمين كسفيان الثَّوْريّ أَن الْبِدْعَة أحب إِلَى إِبْلِيس من الْمعْصِيَة
And this is why the leaders of the Muslims, like Sufyan al-Thawri, said that innovation is more beloved to Iblis than sin.
الْمَعْصِيَةِ — the sin. This noun carries 'the' and sits in the genitive because the comparison word before it governs it. It names plain sin as the second side of the comparison, the thing innovation is dearer than.
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