الشَّامِ Syria in Arabic
الشَّامِ is how you say “Syria” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَأَرْسَلَتْنِي دَسِيسًا إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ بَعْدَ أَنْ رَجَعَ مِنَ الشَّامِ،
So she sent me as a schemer to Muhammad after he returned from Syria.
الشام Syria
A place-name made definite by al-, in the genitive because the preposition 'from' governs it. With that preposition it names where he came back from, finishing the time-setting clause.
The English is machine-translated.

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