الْبَرُّthe righteous

Example sentences

• وَفِي أَشْهَادِهَا وَفِي مَعْرِفَتِهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ وَالْكَافِرُ وَالْبَرُّ وَالْفَاجِرُ

  And in its witnesses and in its knowledge are the believer and the disbeliever, the righteous and the wicked.

  وَالْبَرُّ — and the righteous. The 'and' again coordinates a fresh list item, the righteous added to those before. Same coordinating job as the earlier connectors: it strings parallel nouns into one balanced series.

  From: What Worship Really Means →