كَسَرَbreak

Example sentences

• وَإِن سَقَطت على شَيْء لم تكسره وَلم تخدشه

  And if it lands on something, it does not break it or scratch it.

  تَكْسِرْهُ — break it. In the jussive because 'lam' precedes it, with the bee as built-in subject and '-hu' as the object 'it' (what it landed on). The bare ending is the jussive mark: 'it did not break it'.

  From: Contentment with What God Wills →

• فاقتدهِد في كسر شَهَواتها، وحملها على ما يرضي ربك، واصبر على ذلك، فإن العاقبة حميدة

  So strive to break its desires, compel it to what pleases your Lord, and be patient with that, for the outcome is praiseworthy.

  كِسْرِ — breaking. This is the first half of 'breaking of its desires', a verbal noun and the object of the preposition, so it stands in the possessive case. It owns the link with the noun after it and gives up its own 'the'.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →