صِدِّيقtruthful

Example sentences

• فإن هؤلاء الثلاثة الذين يريدون الرياء والسمعة هم بإزاء الثلاثة الذين بعد النبيين من الصديقين والشهداء والصالحين،

  For these three who seek show and reputation are the counterparts of the three who come after the prophets: the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous.

  الصِّدِّيقِينَ — the truthfully sincere ones. A sound masculine plural in the genitive, the first rank named — the deeply truthful. The intensive form marks not mere honesty but a settled habit of truthfulness.

  From: Deeds for God Alone →

• فإن من تعلم العلم الذي بعث الله به رسله وعلمه لوجه الله كان صديقا،

  For whoever learns the knowledge sent by God through His messengers and teaches it for the sake of God is a sincere one,

  صِدِّيقًا — a sincere one. The predicate of 'was', in the accusative (the tanwin) as this 'to be' requires, indefinite — he counts as 'a truthful one'. The accusative ending is the grammatical sign that this names what he became.

  From: Deeds for God Alone →