📝 Word of the day (19)

لِسَانٌ | .pl أَلْسُنٌ / أَلْسِنَةٌ tongue Example sentence: فَأَخَذَ بِلِسَانِهِ فَقَالَ: ((تَكُفُّ عَلَيْكَ هَذَا)) قُلْتُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ وَإِنَّا لَمُؤَاخَذُونَ بِمَا نَتَكَلَّمُ بِهِ قَالَ: ‏((ثَكِلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ يَا مُعَاذُ وَهَلْ يَكُبُّ النَّاسَ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ فِي النَّارِ إِلاَّ حَصَائِدُ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ)). So he (ﷺ) took hold of his tongue and said, "restrain this." I asked: "O Messenger of Allāh! Shall we really be accounted for what we say?" He replied, "May your mother lose you O Mu’ādh! Are people thrown onto their faces in Hell for anything other than the harvest of their tongues?’” [Collected by Tirmithi and he graded it 'hassan saheeh'] Benefit: The word لسان is both masculine & feminine, so you can say: هذا لسان / هذه لسان There are only a few words like this in the Arabic language, otherwise most nouns only have 1 gender.