الْبَنِينَthe sons

Example sentences

• زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ

  People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.

  وَالْبَنِينَ — and the sons. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun carrying al- ('the'). Here wa- adds the next item to the running list of desires, coordinating it with what came before. Because the earlier preposition governs the whole list, this item too sits in the genitive — wa- just links it in.

  From: This World Is Short →