مُقَابَلَةِcorresponding right

Example sentences

• لَا سِيْمَةِ إِذَا أَضَافَ إِلَى جَحْدِ الْحَقِّ الْمُقَابَلَةِ بِسُوْءِ الْمُنْقَلَبِ

  Especially when, in addition to denying the corresponding right, he repays it with a harmful return.

  الْمُقَابَلَةِ — the corresponding right. This noun carries al- 'the' and names the matching, reciprocal response, sitting in the genitive within the chain set up earlier. It is the second wrong being added: meeting good with its opposite. Its case follows from its place in the preceding 'adds... denial... the repaying' structure.

  From: Honoring Parents →

• وَقِيلَ الصَّبْرُ ثَبَاتٌ بَاعِثٌ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ فِي مُقَابَلَةِ بَاعِثِ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهْوَةِ

  It is said that patience is the steadiness that serves as the driving force of reason and religion in opposing the impulses of desire and lust.

  مُقَابَلَةِ — opposing. An action-noun ('opposing/confronting'), naming the act of facing off as a thing. It stands in the genitive ending under the preposition before it, and it heads an 'of' link with 'driving force' next. It sets up the confrontation between the two impulses.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →