شَقّdifficult

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.

  أَشَقُّ — more challenging. A comparative meaning 'harder', built on the elative pattern that Arabic uses for 'more X'. It is the predicate of the comparison and stays in one fixed shape; the thing compared against follows, introduced by the next word.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →