أَسَىgrieve

Example sentences

• وَقَوله الْحَدِيد لكيلا تأسوا على مَا فاتكم وَلَا تفرحوا بِمَا آتَاكُم

  And His saying in Al-Hadid: 'So that you do not despair over what has passed you by, nor rejoice over what He has given you.'

  تَأْسَوْا — you grieve. Verb in its subjunctive shape, 'you grieve', triggered by the 'so that not' before it. The altered ending shows the grieving is the outcome being prevented, not a present fact; the plural 'you' is built in.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →

• فَبَقِيَتْ مَرَارَةُ الأَسَى بِلَا مُقَاوِمٍ،

  So the bitterness of grief remained, with no one to oppose it,

  الأَسَى — of grief. A noun ('grief') that is the owned half of 'the bitterness OF grief', in the genitive as the possessor. Set right after the head-noun with no word for 'of', it both completes the phrase and makes the whole subject definite.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →