هَوَاهُhis desire

Example sentences

• وَكَذَلِكَ من أعرض عَن اتِّبَاع الْحق الَّذِي يُعلمهُ تبعا لهواه فَإِن ذَلِك يورثه الْجَهْل والضلال حَتَّى يعمى قلبه عَن الْحق الْوَاضِح

  And likewise: whoever turns away from following the truth that is taught to him, following his own desire, then that (attitude) will beget in him ignorance and misguidance until his heart becomes blind to the clear truth.

  لِهَوَاهُ — for his desire. A preposition 'for/to' carrying a noun 'desire' with 'his' attached, 'for his desire'. One word bundles preposition, noun, and possessor; it names what he follows instead of the truth.

  From: Following Desires →

• وَلَا صَبْرُ لَهُ عَنْ دَاعِيِ هَوَاهُ إِلَى اِرْتِكَابِ مَا نُهِىَ عَنْهُ

  And he has no patience to resist the urging of his desire to commit what he was forbidden to do.

  هواه — his desire. The noun 'desire' with an attached -hu ('his'), and it closes the 'of' pairing as the owner: 'the urging of his desire'. As the second term it sits in the genitive ending. The -hu reaches back to the person whose inner pull is being described.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →