كَافِرٍunbeliever

Example sentences

• وَلَوْ كَانَ هَذَا عُذْرًا لَكَانَ عُذْرًا لِإِبْلِيسِ وَقَوْمِ نُوحٍ وَقَوْمِ هُودٍ وَكُلِّ كَافِرٍ

  If this were an excuse, it would excuse Iblis, the people of Noah, the people of Hud, and every unbeliever.

  كَافِرٍ — unbeliever. This noun sits in the genitive because the quantifier 'every' just before it governs it as the thing quantified, and because the whole phrase still falls under the earlier preposition's reach. Its singular shape after 'every' is normal: Arabic counts 'each one' with a singular, not a plural.

  From: Patience Under Decree →