الأَصَمَthe unresponsive in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُبْكِيَ أَبْكَى الصَّخْرَ الأَصَمَ

  And when he wanted to make people weep, he made even the unresponsive rock weep.

  الأصم — the unresponsive. An adjective, 'the unresponsive/deaf', in apposition to 'the rock' and matching it in definiteness and case — Arabic makes describing words copy their noun. The agreement marks it as the rock's epithet, heightening the image of deaf stone weeping.

  From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →