وُجُودِهِمْtheir presence in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا انْسَلَخَ نَهَارُ وُجُودِهِمْ

  When the day of their presence drew to a close.

  وُجُودِهِمْ — their presence. The owner-noun completing the pairing 'the day of their presence', in the genitive shape and carrying an attached 'their' suffix. The second noun of such a chain takes the genitive and, here, also names the possessors.

  From: Finding the Prophet's Way →

• فَتَفَكَّرْتُ فَرَأَيْتُ كَثِيرًا مِنَ النَّاسِ فِي وُجُودِهِمْ كَالْعَدَمِ،

  I reflected and saw that many people, in their existence, are like nothingness.

  وُجُودِهِمْ — their existence. A noun with a 'their' pronoun clipped onto its end, so one Arabic word carries both 'existence' and its plural owners. That suffix reaches back to the 'many people' mentioned earlier, tracking them as the possessors, and the whole word sits in the 'of'-style ending demanded by the preposition before it.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →