نَظَر view in Arabic

لأَنَّ الْبَهَائِمَ وَاقِفَةٌ مَعَ طِبَاعِهَا لَا نَظَرَ لَهَا إِلَى عَاقِبَةٍ وَلا فِكْرَ فِي مَآلٍ

Because animals remain with their nature, without regard to consequences and without thinking of their fate.

نَظَرَ regard

Negated by the 'no' before it and sitting in the accusative — a flat, absolute 'no looking-ahead whatsoever'. Arabic uses this no-plus-accusative frame to deny something categorically.

From The Discipline of Foresight

الثامن أنه سبحانه دعا الانسان إلى النظر فيما خلق منه ليرده عن تكذيبه بما أخبر به

The eighth point is that He, glorified be He, invited humans to reflect on what He created them from to dissuade them from denying what He informed them of.

النَّظَرِ reflect

This verbal noun carries 'the' and names the act of looking or reflecting as a thing. It is governed by the preposition before it, so it sits in the prepositional form; Arabic turns the verb 'to look' into this noun to speak of 'the reflecting'.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

حتى يدعوه إلى النظر فيما خلق منه ليستقبح منه صحة إمكان رد الماء

So that He might invite him to reflect on what he was created from, deeming the possibility of water's return improbable.

النَّظَرِ reflect

This verbal noun carries 'the' and names the act of reflecting as a thing, governed by the preposition before it. Arabic turns the verb 'to look' into this noun so it can serve as the object of the preposition, 'to reflection'.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

التاسع أنه لا ارتباط بين النظر في مبدأ خلقه ورد الماء في الاحليل بعد خروجه

The ninth point is that there is no connection between reflecting on the origin of his creation and the return of the water to the urethra after it has exited.

النَّظَرِ reflecting

This verbal noun carries 'the' and names the act of reflecting as a thing, governed by 'between' so it stands as one side of the connection being denied. Arabic uses the derived noun to make an action into something that can be linked or compared.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

فقد أعجبني منك أنك أصبتَ في نظرك،

I was impressed by you, for you were correct in your view.

نَظَرِكَ your view

A noun, 'view / judgement', with 'your' attached as possessor. The suffix marks the view as yours, and the noun stands under the 'in' that locates where the correctness lay.

From Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives

فَاسْتَفَدْتُ بِالنَّظَرِ فِيهَا مِنْ مُلاحَظَةٍ سَيْرِ القَوْمِ،

So I benefited from observing the conduct of the people.

بِالنَّظَرِ by the observation

The preposition bi- ('through/by means of') fused with a definite action noun. Bi- marks the instrument: the looking is the means by which the benefit came. It governs the following noun into the genitive, and the noun's al- makes it 'the observing' as a definite method.

From A Life of Reading and Writing

ثم نبه سبحانه الانسان على دليل المعاد بما يشاهده من حال مبدئه على طريقة القرآن في الاستدلال على المعاد بالمبدأ فقال ﴿فَلْيَنْظُرِ الإِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ﴾

Then Allah, glory be to Him, reminds mankind of the evidence of the Resurrection through what they observe of their own creation's beginning, following the Quranic method of using the creation's origin as evidence for the Resurrection. He says, 'So let man observe from what he was created.'

فَلْيَنْظُرِ let observe

A command built with a 'let him' prefix ('fa-' plus a command-marker) on a present verb: it turns 'he looks' into an order 'so let him look', a third-person command English makes with 'let'. The form's shape is what carries the command.

From Creation Points to Resurrection

أي فلينظر نظر الفكر والاستدلال ليعلم أن الذي ابتدأ أول خلقه من نطفة قادر على إعادته

Meaning, let him look with thought and reasoning to know that He who began his creation from a sperm-drop is able to resurrect him.

فَلْيَنْظُرْ let him look

A command built with a 'let him' prefix on a present verb: 'so let him look', a third-person order English renders with 'let'. The form's shape carries the command without a separate 'should'.

From Creation Points to Resurrection

أي فلينظر نظر الفكر والاستدلال ليعلم أن الذي ابتدأ أول خلقه من نطفة قادر على إعادته

Meaning, let him look with thought and reasoning to know that He who began his creation from a sperm-drop is able to resurrect him.

نَظَرَ with thought

A verbal-noun (the 'looking' frozen into a noun) in the object form, echoing the verb to specify the kind of looking; placing the action-noun after its own verb is how Arabic says 'look the look of...'. It heads an 'of' link with what follows.

From Creation Points to Resurrection