قَهَرconquer

Example sentences

• فمجاهدتها أشق من مجاهدة العدو الظاهر؛ لأن العدو الظاهر يمكن الفرار منه أو قهره، وأما النفس فملازمة للإنسان لا تفارقه

  So struggling against it is harder than struggling against a visible enemy; for a visible enemy can be escaped or conquered, but the self is ever-present with the person and does not leave him.

  قَهْرُهُ — its conquest. A verbal noun meaning 'overpowering it', with -hu 'it' attached as the thing overpowered, forming an 'of' link. It is the second option named after 'or' and stands in the subject case parallel to 'the escape'; the pronoun reaches back to the visible enemy.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →