الشُّهَدَاءِthe martyrs

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُمْ هُمْ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقًا،

  And that they are those on whom Allah has bestowed favor: the Prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. Those are excellent companions.

  وَالشُّهَدَاءِ — and the martyrs. Another list-joining wa- ('and') adding one more category to the same enumeration. The noun is a plural whose singular ends in a long vowel plus a glottal stop, which is why its written shape looks different from the earlier -in plurals, yet it sits in the same governed slot. It stays parallel to the rest of the list both in role and in its place after the partitive particle.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →