Arabic vocabulary
شاغل is how you say “distractor” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَلَيْسَ بِشَاغِلٍ يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ كَنَفْسِكَ الَّتِي هِيَ بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْكَ
And nothing can distract you from Allah like your own self between your sides.
بِشَاغِلٍ — with a distraction. 'bi-' here is an emphasis tag after 'laysa'; 'shaghil' = 'a distracter', so 'there is no distracter'.
From: Taming the Lower Self →OpenArabic teaches words like شاغل through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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