الذينwho in Arabic

Example sentences

• قُلْتُ لَهُ وَلَا يَنْتَقِضُ هَذَا بِالْمُلُوكِ الظَّلَمَةِ الَّذِينَ مَكَّنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَقْتًا مَا

  I said to him, 'This is not refuted by the oppressive kings whom God empowered on the earth for a period of time.'

  الَّذِينَ — whom. This is the plural relative pronoun, 'whom', used for people, opening a clause describing the kings. It agrees with them in number and ties the coming description back to those rulers.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →

• كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى ﴿قُلْ لِعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ﴾،

  as He, Exalted be He, said: 'Say to My servants who have believed to establish prayer',

  الَّذِينَ — who. A relative pronoun, 'who', that specifically marks a masculine plural group. Arabic matches the relative word to the number and gender of the people it describes, so this exact shape already tells you the believers being talked about are many and treated as masculine.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →