رَاحَةٌcomfort

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.

  الرَّاحَةِ — comfort. The owner closing 'love of comfort', set right after the action-noun and so taking the genitive ending. Its 'the' makes it the definite ease the soul craves.

  From: Facing God's Tests →

• فالصلاة والصيام والزكاة والحج، وإن كانت مشقة على البدن، فإنها راحة للقلب، وطهارة للروح

  Prayer, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage, though burdensome on the body, are comfort for the heart and purification for the soul.

  رَاحَةٌ — comfort. The comment about the acts, 'a comfort', standing as the predicate with no separate 'is'. Its subject ending suits its role, and it heads a 'for' phrase next, naming who it comforts.

  From: Facing God's Tests →