مُنْذُsince

Example sentences

• مَا قَدَرْتُ أَنْ أَتَأَمَّلَ أُمِّي مُنْذُ أَسْلَمَتْ

  I could not look after my mother since she embraced Islam.

  مُنْذُ — since. This is a time-preposition meaning 'since, ever since', marking the starting point of the inability. It governs the verb-clause after it and frames the whole confession as running from that past moment onward. So it tells you the not-being-able stretches from when she became Muslim up to now.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• تَعْلَمُ مَنْ تُخَاطِبُ مُنْذُ ثَلاَثِ لَيَالٍ يَا أَبَ هُرَيْرَةَ

  You know whom you have been addressing for three nights, O Abu Hurayrah.

  مُنْذُ — for. A preposition marking a stretch of time, 'for/since', that opens the duration phrase; it governs the count after it. It pins the addressing to a span rather than a single moment, fixing how long the exchange has gone on.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →