لِبَعْضto others

Example sentences

• فيقول بعض الناس لبعض أبوكم آدم، ويأتونه فيقولون يا آدم أنت أبو البشر، خلقك الله بيده، ونفخ فيك من روحه، وأمر الملائكة، فسجدوا لك وأسكنك الجنة،

  Some of the people will say to others: "Your father Adam," and they will go to him and say: "O Adam, you are the father of humanity. Allah created you with His hand, breathed into you of His spirit, commanded the angels, and they prostrated to you and placed you in Paradise."

  لِبَعْضٍ — to others. The preposition li- 'to' fused to an indefinite noun, meaning 'to others'. Li- marks the addressee of the speech and forces the genitive, while the indefinite noun (with its tanwin) leaves the 'others' unspecified, pairing with the earlier 'some' to mean group speaking to group.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →