إِنْتِفَاعَthe benefit

Example sentences

• وَدَلِيلٌ هَذَا أَنَّ إِنْتِفَاعَ النَّاسِ بِتَصَانِيفِ الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ إِنْتِفَاعِهِمْ بِمَا يَسْتَفِيدُونَهُ مِنْ مَشَايِخِهِمْ؛

  The proof of this is that people benefit more from the works of earlier scholars than from what they gain from their teachers.

  انتفاع — the benefit. A verbal noun naming the act of benefiting, packaged as a thing; it is the subject of the 'that' clause. Although it is the doer in meaning, it wears the object-style ending because the heavy 'that' before it governs it into that case.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →