الْمُؤْمِنِthe believer

Example sentences

• وَمِنْ أَحْوَالِ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْحَرْبُ سِجَالًا وَدَوْلًا بَيِّنًا دُعَاةَ الدِّينِ وَدُعَاةِ الْهَوَى

  One of the believer's states is that the struggle is a fierce, alternating contest between the call of religion and the call of desire.

  الْمُؤْمِنِ — the believer. This is the owner in the 'of' pairing, so it takes the genitive ending and supplies definiteness to the whole phrase: because the believer is definite, 'the states of the believer' reads as definite even though the first noun carried no 'the' of its own.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →

• وَحَجَرًا حَجَرًا أَيْسَرُ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ مُكَابَدَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْعَاقِلِ

  Removing it stone by stone is easier for Satan than contending with the rational believer.

  الْمُؤْمِنِ — the believer. This noun is the possessed half of 'the struggling-with of the believer', so it takes the (genitive); its al- makes it definite. The action-noun governs it the way a verb governs its object, but expressed as an 'of' pairing. It names whom the struggle is against.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →