Arabic vocabulary
نَوَافِلُ is how you say “voluntary prayers” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَهَذَا قَالَهُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ المُقَارَنَةِ لِلذِّكْرِ وَهِيَ النَّوَافِلُ ؛
So this is what he said about the prayer comparable to remembrance: it is the voluntary prayers.
النَّوَافِلُ — the voluntary prayers. A definite plural noun with al- ('the voluntary prayers'), serving as the predicate of the 'it is' just before it, so 'it is the voluntary prayers'. The verbless equation has no written 'are', the two nouns simply set equal.
From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →OpenArabic teaches words like نَوَافِلُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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