مِحْنَةtrial

Example sentences

• تَعَرَّضَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي شَيْخُوخَتِهِ لِمِحْنَةٍ قَاسِيَةٍ

  In his old age, Ibn al-Jawzi was subjected to a severe trial.

  لِمِحْنَةٍ — to a trial. A preposition 'to' fused to a noun 'trial', completing the verb 'underwent' by naming what was undergone. The preposition governs the noun into the genitive and is the fixed partner of that reflexive verb; the trial's indefinite ending marks it as 'a certain severe trial'.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →