خَلِيلَthe Friend of

Example sentences

• وَلَكِنْ إِئْتُوا إِبْرَاهِيمَ خَلِيلَ الرَّحْمَنِ

  But go to Abraham, the Friend of the Most Merciful.

  خَلِيلَ — the Friend of. A noun-epithet standing in apposition to the name before it, renaming the same person with a title; it shares that name's object case. It also heads a possessive pairing, taking the 'of' form's partner slot and reaching forward to the next word to say whose close friend he is. So it leans on what follows.

  From: Intercession on Judgment Day →