نَيْلُattainment

Example sentences

• لَعُمْرُكَ مَا شَيْءٌ يَفُوْتُكَ نَيْلُهُ بِغَبْنٍ وَلَكِنَّ فِي الْعُقُولِ التَّغَابُنُ

  By your life, nothing you fail to obtain is lost through injustice; rather, minds are mutually deluded.

  نَيْلُهُ — its attainment. This is a verbal noun (a noun naming the action 'attaining') carrying an attached '-its' at its end, the possessor pointing back to the 'thing'. It is the delayed subject of the preceding verb: 'its attainment escapes you'. So the action is treated as a noun that itself can be the subject.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →