بَقَاءsustain

Example sentences

• كما قال أبو بكر الصديق ﵁ للأحمسية لما سألته ما بقاؤنا على هذا الأمر؟

  As Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said to al-Hamsiyyah when she asked him: 'What will sustain us in this matter?'

  بَقَاؤُنَا — will sustain us. A noun meaning 'our staying/continuance' with the attached -na (our) marking the owners; it is the subject the question asks about. The -na points back to the questioner's community: 'what is our remaining...'.

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