لَحَقexcess in Arabic

Example sentences

• وقال أبو الدرداء إني لأستجم نفسي ببعض الباطل كراهية أن أحمل عليها من لحق ما يكلها

  And Abu al-Darda said, 'Indeed, I refresh myself with some idle talk, fearing that I might burden it with so much truth that it becomes weary.'

  لَحَقٍ — the truth. Genitive after the partitive before it; it names the truth whose excess he fears, the amount being weighed out by the 'so much of'.

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