تَحَنُّثُdevotional seclusion

Example sentences

• فَيَتَحَنَّثُ فِيهِ ـ قَالَ وَالْتَّحَنُّثُ التَّعَبُّدُ ـ

  So he practices devotional seclusion in it, and he said that devotional seclusion is devout worship.

  وَالْتَّحَنُّثُ — and the devotional seclusion. The wa- opens the explanatory aside, and the noun carries the 'the' marker making it the known term being defined. The 'the' sound here assimilates into the following consonant, a regular pronunciation effect, but its grammatical job is still definiteness.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →