بَذَلَto give away / to squander

Example sentences

• وَبَذَلَ دِينَهُ لِشَيْطَانِهِ ،

  And he abandoned his religion to his devil,

  وَبَذْلٍ — and he abandoned. The opening 'wa-' coordinates this clause with the surrounding chain of consequences. The core is a verbal noun, the name of an action used in place of a finished verb, which is a common Arabic way of stringing events together compactly, here continuing the run of things the man did.

  From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →