أَحْوَالَspiritual states

Example sentences

• وَهَؤُلاَءِ كَثِيرًا مَا يَسْلِبُونَ أَحْوَالَهُمْ

  And these people very often lose their spiritual states.

  أَحْوَالَهُمْ — their states. A plural noun 'states/conditions' with a 'their' pronoun fused on, serving as the object of the verb. The attached pronoun marks whose states; in this Sufi context it means their spiritual states. It is the thing they lose.

  From: Trust and Piety →

• وَإِنِّي تَدَبَّرْتُ أَحْوَالَ أَكْثَرِ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَالْمُتَزَهِّدِينَ،

  And indeed I reflected on the conditions of most of the scholars and the ascetics.

  أَحْوَالَ — conditions. This plural noun is the thing the verb acts on, its direct object, marked by the open '-a' ending that flags 'this is what got reflected upon'. It also opens a possessive chain: it is the first of a stacked 'X of Y of Z' run that the following nouns complete.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →