الْعَالَمِthe people

Example sentences

• فِيمَا يَجْرِي عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِنْ الْعَالِمِ

  About what happens to many of the people.

  الْعَالِمِ — the people. The al- marks this as definite, here read collectively as 'the people', and it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending forced by the 'of/from' before it. It completes the partitive phrase, naming the whole community from which the many are taken.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →

• الَّتِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا نَظِيرٌ فِي الْعَالَمِ الْإِسْلَامِيِّ

  which had no equal in the Islamic world.

  الْعَالَمِ — the world. A definite noun carrying al-, in the genitive because the 'in' before it governs it. It names the arena, 'the world', and is set up to be narrowed by the adjective that follows. The genitive ending shows its tie to the preposition.

  From: Public Preaching →