الصَّالِحَةِthe righteous

Example sentences

• فَكَانَ إِلَى الْقَرِيَةِ الصَّالِحَةِ أَقْرَبَ بِشِبْرٍ فَجُعِلَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا

  So he was an inch closer to the righteous village and was made one of its people.

  الصَّالِحَةِ — the righteous. This is a describing word that follows its noun and copies its features: it is definite (with 'al-'), in the same genitive case, and feminine, all matching 'village'. This four-way matching is how Arabic ties an adjective unambiguously to the right noun, where English just relies on word order.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →