سِجَالًاa fierce contest

Example sentences

• وَمِنْ أَحْوَالِ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْحَرْبُ سِجَالًا وَدَوْلًا بَيِّنًا دُعَاةَ الدِّينِ وَدُعَاةِ الْهَوَى

  One of the believer's states is that the struggle is a fierce, alternating contest between the call of religion and the call of desire.

  سِجَالًا — a fierce contest. A noun in the object/predicate accusative shape, describing what the struggle amounts to: a contest that swings back and forth between two sides. Arabic uses this accusative ending to mark the noun as the completing description after the linking verb.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →