تَعَبُّدُdevout worship

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.

  التَّعَبُّدُ — the devout worship. This noun carries the 'the' marker and stands as the equating word in the definition: it is what the seclusion-term is being said to mean. So the two definite nouns are set as 'X is Y', a bare equation with no linking verb, which Arabic forms simply by placing them together.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →