الْكَافِرُthe disbeliever

Example sentences

• وَفِي أَشْهَادِهَا وَفِي مَعْرِفَتِهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ وَالْكَافِرُ وَالْبَرُّ وَالْفَاجِرُ

  And in its witnesses and in its knowledge are the believer and the disbeliever, the righteous and the wicked.

  وَالْكَافِرُ — and the disbeliever. Here the 'and' links one item of a list to the next, the disbeliever joined to the believer. Its job in this sentence is purely to coordinate parallel nouns, building up the run of contrasted people.

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