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مُقْبِلٌ approaching in Arabic

مُقْبِلٌ is how you say “approaching” in Arabic.

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ثُمَّ إِنِّى سَمِعْتُهُ وَهُوَ مُقْبِلٌ

Then I heard him as he was approaching.

مُقْبِلٌ approaching

A participle, 'approaching/coming on', used as the predicate of the circumstance clause and standing in the basic subject form. It describes the ongoing state, 'he was in the act of approaching', that framed the hearing.

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الْمُقْبِلُ عَلَى دُنْيَاهِ وَشَهَوَاتِهَا فَقَطَّ

The one who is intent only on his worldly life and its desires.

الْمُقْبِلُ the one who is intent

An active participle ('the one intent / advancing') used as a standing noun in the nominative. Arabic regularly makes such doer-participles into nouns naming a type of person, and the prepositional phrase after it tells what he is intent on.

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