Arabic vocabulary
لِأَنَّbecause in Arabic
لِأَنَّ is how you say “because” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وهذا التكليف يشق على النفوس، لأنها مجبولة على حب الراحة والاستسلام للشهوات
And this obligation is burdensome on the souls because they are inclined to love comfort and surrender to desires.
لِأَنَّهَا — because they. A cause word built from the 'because' prefix plus the reported-fact particle 'that' plus a 'they' pronoun, in one written piece. It opens the reason and its embedded pronoun points back to the souls.
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