حِيَلtricks

Example sentences

• فاعلمت آراءها فِي اسْتِخْرَاج الْحِيَل

  So they put their minds together to devise schemes.

  الحِيَلِ — tricks. A broken plural 'stratagems', the owner completing 'the devising of schemes', genitive. The plots they worked to contrive.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• ومن عاش فيه بالحيل والمكر والدهاء فلا بد له من خزي في الدنيا ومقت في الأخرى وإن تسود هذا،

  Whoever lives by deceit, trickery, and cunning will inevitably face disgrace in this world and contempt in the next, even if they gain prominence.

  بِالْحِيَلِ — by deceit. This is 'by / with' plus 'the tricks' (a broken plural reshaped from its singular). The 'bi-' is instrumental — the means by which he lives: deceit. It governs the genitive. It heads a list of his methods.

  From: Intention in Islam →