جَوَاذِبُattractions

Example sentences

• جَوَاذِبُ الطَّبْعِ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرَةٌ، ثُمَّ هِيَ مِنْ دَاخِلٍ،

  There are many natural attractions to the world; they come from within.

  جَوَاذِبُ — attractions. A plural noun that opens the sentence as its subject. It is also the first half of an 'of' pairing with the next word: 'attractions of [disposition]'. Because it owns a following noun in that pairing, it drops any 'the' of its own and takes its definiteness from the word that follows.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• فَأَمَّا الطَّبْعُ، فَجَوَاذِبُهُ كَثِيرَةٌ،

  As for the natural disposition, it has many attractions.

  فَجَوَاذِبُهُ — so its attractions. Three pieces in one word: the answering fa- ('then/so') that this topic-construction requires, the noun 'attractions', and the suffix '-hu' ('its') glued on as the possessor pointing back to the disposition. The fa- ties the comment to the fronted topic.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →