شَهْوَةٍdesire

Example sentences

• فإن النفس أمارة بالسوء، تميل إلى الشهوات، وتأنف من التكاليف، وتفر من المشاق

  For the self is inclined to evil, leans towards desires, resents obligations, and flees from hardships.

  الشَّهَوَاتِ — the desires. The object of 'toward', so it stands in the possessive case, with 'the' marking the known set of cravings. As a plural it gathers all the desires the self leans toward.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →