دَار sustenance in Arabic
دَار is how you say “sustenance” in Arabic.
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وهم في ذلك دار رزقهم، حسن عيشهم ،
While they are in that state, their provision is flowing and their living is good.
دَارُ their sustenance
This is an active participle 'flowing / abundant', describing their state — but cleverly, the thing that flows is named after it (their provision). This is the 'causative adjective' pattern: the participle describes the people yet raises a following noun (their provision) as what actually does the flowing.
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وليتذكر أن الدنيا أيام قلائل، وأن الآخرة هي دار القرار
Let him remember that this world is only a few days, and the hereafter is the abode of permanence.
دَارُ the abode of
This is the predicate naming what the hereafter is, the first half of 'abode of permanence', so within the clause it stands in the subject-style case. It owns the link with the noun after it and gives up its own 'the'.
قال بخير والحمد لله، وقد اشتريت دارًا بعشرة آلاف درهم
He said: I am well, praise be to Allah, and I have bought a house for ten thousand dirhams.
دَارًا a house
The thing bought, 'a house', the object of 'bought', so it takes the object ending. It is left indefinite, a house, as it is newly mentioned.
قال الوزير بارك الله لك، وأين هذه الدار؟
The minister said: May Allah bless it for you, and where is this house?
الدَّارُ the house
The noun the demonstrative points to, 'the house', and the subject of the verbless 'where is this house?'. Its 'the' is required because it pairs with 'this', which only goes with a definite noun; no 'is' is needed.
فتعجب الوزير وقال وكيف اشتريت دارًا في الجنة؟
The minister was amazed and said: How did you buy a house in Paradise?
دَارًا a house
The -an ending here does two jobs at once: it shows the word is the direct object of 'buy' and, because there is no al-, it marks the noun as indefinite, 'a house, some house'. Arabic packs both object-role and 'a/an' into that single ending.
قال لأني تصدقت بعشرة آلاف درهم، فثمنها دار في الجنة
He said: Because I gave charity of ten thousand dirhams; the price of it is a house in Paradise.
دَارٌ a house
With no al-, this is indefinite, 'a house'. Here it is the thing being identified in an equational sentence ('its price is a house'), so it carries the plain -un subject-style ending rather than an object ending; Arabic links 'X is Y' with no verb 'to be' at all.
قال أخبرته أني اشتريت دارًا في الجنة بعشرة آلاف درهم، فأعطاني عشرة آلاف أخرى
He said: I told him that I bought a house in Paradise for ten thousand dirhams, so he gave me another ten thousand.
دَارًا a house
The -an ending marks this as the direct object of 'bought' and, with no al-, as indefinite, 'a house'.
فقال الوزير أحسنت، اذهب فقد سبقك الجصاص إلى الجنة، فالقصر الذي اشتريته هو لصاحب الدار، فاذهب واقبضه منه
The minister said: Well done, go, for Al-Jassas has preceded you to Paradise, and the palace you bought belongs to the owner of the house, so go and collect it from him.
الدَّارِ the house
The owned, second noun in 'owner of the house', so genitive and definite by al-. Adjacency with no word for 'of' builds the possessive 'owner of the house'.
ولم يرضها لأوليائه فبنى لهم غير هذه الدار،
And He was not pleased with it for His close ones, so He built for them another abode,
الدَّارِ the abode
This is the owner in 'other than this abode', in the genitive to complete the phrase, made definite by 'al-'. It names the worldly dwelling being set aside.
وعلى عمر مخرج الرسول من دار الخيزران وقد طال ما خبي،
And upon Umar, who led the Prophet out from the house of Al-Khazeran, and indeed what was hidden lasted long.
دَارِ house of
This noun opens a possessive pairing, 'the house of Al-Khayzuran'. Standing as the noun governed by the preposition 'from', it carries the -i post-preposition ending and sits directly before its owner with no word for 'of'.