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إِمْسَاك holding back in Arabic

إِمْسَاك is how you say “holding back” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقُوَّةَ الإِحْجَامِ إِمْسَاكًا عَمَّا يَضُرُّهُ

And the power of refraining is holding back from what harms him.

إِمْسَاكًا holding back

An action-noun ('holding back') in the accusative, naming the manner/state into which the second power is put. Its accusative ending marks it as the assigned state, parallel to 'directed' earlier.

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