غَرَضgoal

Example sentences

• وذكر كذلك الذين اتخذوا العلم وسيلة وغرضا لتحصيل ملذات الدنيا وحطامها الفاني،

  He also mentioned those who took knowledge as a means and a goal to acquire the pleasures of the fleeting world and its perishable goods.

  وَغَرَضًا — and a goal. Joined by 'and' to the previous word, this is a parallel complement: the knowledge was made both a means and a goal. The bare ending again marks it as indefinite, 'a goal', and pairs it grammatically with the noun before it.

  From: Knowledge and Humility →

• أطلقوا أنفسهم في أغراضها كالسوائب والبحر،

  They released themselves into their desires like stray animals adrift at sea,

  أَغْرَاضِهَا — its aims. This noun takes the 'of' ending from the preposition before it, and 'its' is fused to its end. That attached owner reaches back to the selves or souls mentioned earlier, not to the nearest word, so reading it means tracing whose aims are meant across the line.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →