تَوَاضُعhumility

Example sentences

• فإنك جاهل خبل فداوم بالله على التواضع الزائد ،

  For surely you are ignorant and foolish, so persist in excessive humility with God,

  التَّوَاضُعِ — the humility. The al- marks this definite, 'the humility', and it sits in the possessed ending forced by 'ala before it: 'in the humility'. The noun names the trait the addressee is told to hold to.

  From: True Devotion →

• التَّواضُعُ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الشَّرَفِ

  Humility is more beloved to him than honor.

  التَّواضُعُ — humility. Built on a verbal-noun pattern that turns an action into a thing, here the quality of lowering oneself, and made definite by 'al-'. It is the subject of a verbless 'X is more loved than Y' comparison. Naming a behaviour as an abstract noun lets the sentence weigh it against its opposite.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →