مَشَقَّةٍhardship

Example sentences

• فإن النفس أمارة بالسوء، تميل إلى الشهوات، وتأنف من التكاليف، وتفر من المشاق

  For the self is inclined to evil, leans towards desires, resents obligations, and flees from hardships.

  المَشَاقِّ — the hardships. The object of 'from', so it stands in the possessive case, with 'the' marking the known hardships. The doubled final letter reflects its root; as a plural it gathers the difficulties the self avoids.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →