فُقَرَاءِthe poor

Example sentences

• ويستدعي معرفة حسنة بالتفسير وإكثارا من حكايات الفقراء والزهاد

  It requires good understanding of interpretation and an abundance of stories about the poor and ascetics.

  الْفُقَرَاءِ — the poor. This is the owner completing 'stories of the poor', so it takes the genitive of the possessive relation. It is a broken plural — the singular reshaped from within — and belongs to a class that resists the usual nunation (a 'diptote'), so its ending stays bare.

  From: Sincere Preaching →

• وكان لا يأخذ على المعالجة أجرا من الفقراء وأوساط الناس،

  He would not accept a fee for treatment from the poor and middle-class people.

  الفُقَرَاءِ — the poor. This is the noun governed by 'from', in the genitive and made definite by 'al-', naming the poor as one source he declined to charge.

  From: Moderation in Medicine →