أُولَئِكَ those in Arabic
أُولَئِكَ is how you say “those” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَأَنَّهُمْ هُمْ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقًا،
And that they are those on whom Allah has bestowed favor: the Prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. Those are excellent companions.
أُولَئِكَ those
A 'far' demonstrative ('those'), pointing back across the whole list to the favoured groups just named. It works as the thing being praised by the verb before it, gathering all the listed categories under one pointing word. Arabic often uses this distal 'those' for esteem and distance, lending the praise a respectful, looking-up-to tone.
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أُولَـئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ
Those, upon them are blessings from their Lord and mercy.
أُولَـئِكَ those
A far-pointing demonstrative ('those') referring to a distant or honored plural group, here the patient ones described. It stands as the topic the rest of the verse comments on.
وَأُولَئِكَ هُمْ الْمُهْتَدُونَ
And those are the rightly guided.
وَأُولَئِكَ and those
wa- opens the verse and a far-pointing demonstrative ('those') follows as the topic. The conjunction links to the prior verse while the demonstrative resumes pointing at the same group.
وَمَنْ يُوَقِّ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمْ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
And whoever restrains the stinginess of his soul, those are the successful.
فَأُولَئِكَ so those
This puts the result-marker 'so/then' onto a far-pointing 'those', launching the then-side of the condition. The prefix signals that what follows is the payoff for whoever did the restraining.
أُولَئِكَ هُمْ أَوْلِيَائِيُ حَقًّا حَقًّا
Those are truly my allies, truly.
أُولَئِكَ those
This is the plural demonstrative 'those', used to point at a group of people already described. It is the subject of the sentence, picking out exactly who is meant. The plural form itself, with no number word, marks that more than two people are pointed to.