مَعَاصِيthe sins

Example sentences

• وَصَرْفُهَا بِزِمَامِهَا عَنْ مَعَاصِيِ اللَّهِ

  And he turned it away with its rein from disobediences of God.

  مَعَاصِيِ — disobediences. A broken-plural noun ('disobediences') leading an 'of' pairing, in the genitive after the preposition. As the head it stays bare of 'the' and hands definiteness to the owner that follows.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →

• فَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ يَشْهَدُونَ مَا يُقَدَّرُ عَلَى أَحَدِهِمْ مِنَ الْمَعَاصِيِ وَالذُّنُوبِ

  So they may witness the sins and wrongdoings that are decreed upon any one of them.

  الْمَعَاصِيِ — the sins. The al- makes this 'the sins' a defined class, a broken plural, and governed by the partitive 'from' it sits in the genitive. It names the first concrete category of what is decreed, an example drawn from the general 'what'.

  From: Patience Under Decree →