اِرْتِكَابِcommitting

Example sentences

• وَلَا صَبْرُ لَهُ عَنْ دَاعِيِ هَوَاهُ إِلَى اِرْتِكَابِ مَا نُهِىَ عَنْهُ

  And he has no patience to resist the urging of his desire to commit what he was forbidden to do.

  اِرْتِكَابٍ — committing. A noun made from a verb that names the action itself as a thing ('the committing'), the way English uses '-ing' nouns. It lets the doing be talked about as an object, here the endpoint the desire urges toward. It heads its own 'of' link with the relative clause that follows.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →