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Dal-ha-Ra
To happen.
Dahr,
plu. Duhur:
Time (short or long); Beginning of time; Year; Event; Time from the beginning of the world to its end; Epoch; Vicissitudes of time; Calamity; Fate; as time brings to pass events; Good or evil, a permanent habit that lasts throughout life; a purpose, an intention, a desire, the end that one has in view.
dahr
n.m.
45:24
وَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلاَّ حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلاَّ الدَّهْرُ وَمَا لَهُمْ بِذَلِكَ مِنْ عِلْم ٍ إِنْ هُمْ إِلاَّ يَظُنُّونَ
Wa Qālū Mā Hiya 'Illā Ĥayātunā Ad-Dunyā Namūtu Wa Naĥyā Wa Mā Yuhlikunā 'Illā Ad-Dahru Wa Mā Lahum Bidhālika Min `Ilmin 'In Hum 'Illā Yažunnūna
And they said: There is nothing except this worldly life; we die and we live and nothing destroys us except the passing of time! And they have no knowledge about this; they only conjecture.
76:1
هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الإِنسَانِ حِين ٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئا ً مَذْكُورا ً
Hal 'Atá `Alá Al-'Insāni Ĥīnun Mina Ad-Dahri Lam Yakun Shay'āan Madhkūrāan
Was there not a time in the past when man was nothing to even be mentioned?
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