الشَّيْخُthe sheikh

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ لَخَّصَهَا الشَّيْخُ عَلِيُّ الْطَنْطَاوِي فِي مُقَدِّمَةِ طَبْعَتِهِ لِصَيْدِ الْخَاطِرِ فَقَالَ

  Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi had summarized it in the preface to his edition of Sayd al-Khatir and said:

  الشَّيْخُ — the sheikh. A definite noun 'the sheikh', an honorific title standing as the subject of the verb and introducing the person by rank before his name. Its 'the' marks the specific, well-known scholar.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• وَقَدْ يُهَانُ الشَّيْخُ فِي كِبْرِهِ حَتَّى تَرْحَمُهُ الْقُلُوبُ،

  An old man may be humiliated in his old age until people's hearts have mercy on him.

  الشيخ — the old man. A definite noun acting as the subject of the passive verb, the one made the target of humiliation, so it takes the plain subject ending. In a passive clause the sufferer of the action becomes the grammatical subject, which is exactly the role 'the old man' plays here.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →