ذِيwho in Arabic

Example sentences

• الحمد لله الذي لا يجد الهارب منه وزرًا ولا معاذا،

  Praise be to Allah, from whom the fugitive cannot find refuge nor escape.

  ٱلَّذِي — who. This relative word, 'who', hooks a describing clause onto the divine name. It marks everything after as further telling about that same one, the normal Arabic link when the thing described is definite.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →

• بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ

  In the name of your Lord who created.

  الَّذِي — who. A relative word meaning 'who', opening a clause that describes the Lord just named. It hooks the following verb onto 'your Lord' as a defining trait, the One who created.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →

• لَا تَخْلُوا بِاِمْرَأَةٍ غَيْرِ ذِي مَحْرَمٍ

  Do not be alone with a woman who has no mahram.

  ذِي — possessor of. A noun meaning 'possessor of/one having', which only ever appears as the head of a possessive pairing and forces the following noun into the 'of' (genitive) ending. Here it links to 'mahram' to mean 'one who has a mahram', the whole phrase negated by the preceding 'lacking'.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →

• فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي مَنَعَنَا

  So that is what prevented us.

  الَّذِي — that which. A relative pronoun, 'the one which', opening a clause that describes the 'that' just named. It knots the following verb-clause onto the demonstrative, making it the thing that did the preventing.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →

• فَقَالُوا هَاتِ الَّذِي أَتَيْتَنَا بِهِ الْبَارِحَةَ

  They said, "Bring the one you brought to us yesterday."

  الَّذِي — the one. This is a 'the one that' linking-word standing in for the thing demanded, and it opens a relative clause describing it. It works as the object of 'bring' while leaving the thing itself to be defined by the clause. Everything after it tells which thing.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →