مَجَالِسِthe gatherings

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ شَيْخٌ يَدُورُ فِي الْمَجَالِسِ وَيَقُولُ مَنْ سَرُّهُ أَنْ تَدُومَ لَهُ الْعَافِيَةُ، فَلْيَتَّقِ اللَّهَ

  There was a sheikh who went from gathering to gathering and would say: Whoever wants his well-being to last, let him fear God.

  الْمَجَالِسِ — the gatherings. A definite plural noun in the 'of'-style ending because the preposition before it governs it. It names the assemblies the sheikh moved through. The plural marks that he visited many such sessions, fitting the picture of his habitual circulating.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →

• يَحْضُرُ أَحَدُ هَذِهِ الْمَجَالِسِ

  He attends one of these gatherings.

  الْمَجَالِسِ — gatherings. A broken plural (vowels recast inside to mark plurality) for 'gatherings', serving as the owning second term of 'one of these gatherings', hence the genitive. The demonstrative before it and this noun together specify which set the one is drawn from.

  From: Public Preaching →