التيwhich

Example sentences

• وَلَيْسَ بِشَاغِلٍ يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ كَنَفْسِكَ الَّتِي هِيَ بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْكَ

  And nothing can distract you from Allah like your own self between your sides.

  الَّتِي — which. 'allati' = 'which, who' (feminine), describing the self.

  From: Taming the Lower Self →

• ﴿وَقُلْ لِعِبَادِي يَقُولُوا الَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ﴾،

  'Say to My servants to speak that which is best',

  الَّتِي — that which. A relative pronoun, 'that which', marked as feminine singular. Arabic picks the relative word to agree with the thing described, so this particular form signals that the noun it stands in for is grammatically feminine and singular.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →