إِنْتِفَاعِهِمْtheir benefit

Example sentences

• وَدَلِيلٌ هَذَا أَنَّ إِنْتِفَاعَ النَّاسِ بِتَصَانِيفِ الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ إِنْتِفَاعِهِمْ بِمَا يَسْتَفِيدُونَهُ مِنْ مَشَايِخِهِمْ؛

  The proof of this is that people benefit more from the works of earlier scholars than from what they gain from their teachers.

  انتفاعهم — their benefit. A verbal noun carrying a 'their' tail-pronoun pointing back to the people — 'their benefiting'. It is the second side of the comparison, the after-preposition object of 'than', so it wears that case while also holding its owner inside the word.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →