سَلِيمٌsound

Example sentences

• القلب السليم يعرف الحق، ويميل إليه،

  A sound heart recognizes the truth and inclines towards it.

  السَّلِيمُ — sound. An adjective meaning 'sound', describing the heart. It follows its noun and copies its definiteness and subject case, as Arabic adjectives agree with the nouns they describe.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• وَإِنَّمَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِالرِّياضَةِ وَالتَّأْدِيبِ مَنْ أَصْلُ جَوْهَرِهِ سَلِيمٌ،

  And only benefits by exercise and discipline who his essential nature is sound,

  سَلِيمٌ — is sound. This adjective is the predicate completing the inner sentence: it states that his essence IS sound. Its indefinite nominative ending matches it to the topic noun without any verb 'is', since Arabic equates two words simply by placing them together. It closes the description of which person benefits from training.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →