قِيَامِstanding in prayer

Example sentences

• فَكَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَصْبِرُ عَلَى مُكَابَدَةِ قِيَامِ اللَّيْلِ فِي الْحَرِّ وَالْبَرْدِ

  Many people endure the hardship of standing in prayer at night in heat and cold.

  قِيَامِ — standing in prayer. An action-noun ('standing/rising'), naming the deed itself as a thing the way an '-ing' noun does. Here it is the middle link of a chain of 'of' pairings: owned by 'standing of the night', and itself owning 'the night' next. It carries the genitive ending as the owned term of the larger phrase.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →