الصَّلَاةَthe prayer

Example sentences

• وَهَلْ يَتْرُكُ الصَّلَاةَ مُحْدَثًا إِلَّا وَهُوَ الرَّذَالَةُ الزَّبَّالَةُ ،

  And who would abandon the prayer while ritually impure, except that he is base and filthy?

  الصَّلَاةَ — the prayer. This noun carries 'al-' (the) and is the thing the verb acts on, its direct object, which is why it takes the object (accusative) ending. Arabic shows 'who-did-what-to-whom' through these endings rather than word order, so the ending here is what flags it as the receiver of the abandoning.

  From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →

• فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم الْإِسْلَامُ أَنْ تَشْهَدَ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ،

  The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Islam is to bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and to establish the prayer.

  الصََّاةَ — the prayer. The definite object of 'establish', carrying al- ('the'). As the receiver of the action it sits in the accusative, the case Arabic uses for direct objects. It names the specific duty, the prayer, being established.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →