كِبْرُarrogance

Example sentences

• فتخضع الْأَعْنَاق وتنكسر النُّفُوس وتخشع الْأَصْوَات ويذوب الْكبر كَمَا يذوب الْملح فِي المَاء،

  So necks are humbled, souls are broken, voices become subdued, and arrogance melts like salt in water.

  الْكِبْرُ — arrogance. Subject of 'melts', nominative, after its verb — pride. What dissolves in the presence of majesty.

  From: Reflecting on God's Names →

• الْكِبْرُ مِنْهُ مَأْمُونٌ

  Arrogance is safe from him.

  الْكِبْرُ — arrogance. Marked definite by 'al-', naming the known vice as the topic the sentence comments on, so it sits as the subject of a verbless 'X is Y' statement. Arabic forms such equational sentences with no verb 'is'; the subject simply faces its predicate. This noun is the thing being characterised.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →