مَعْرُوفِ what is right in Arabic
مَعْرُوفِ is how you say “what is right” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَلَا صَبْرٌ لَهُ عَلَى الْأَمْرِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ
And he has no patience for enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
بِالْمَعْرُوفِ with what is right
The preposition bi- ('with/by') fused to the definite noun 'the right', forming the second half of the set phrase 'enjoining-with-what-is-right'. With the commanding-noun, bi- marks the content of the command. The al- on the noun blends in sound into the next consonant, a normal assimilation not shown in writing.
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More example sentences
وَيَسْتَقِلُّ كَثِيرُ الْمَعْرُوفِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ
And he regards much good deed from his self as little.
الْمَعْرُوفِ the good deed
Definite by 'al-' and serving as the owner-word in 'much of the good deed', so it sits in the genitive as the second noun of the pairing. The article names it as the recognised category of good works. It completes the 'of' relationship that 'much' opened.