يَتَصَعَّبُit becomes difficult

Example sentences

• وَيُكَابِدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْعَاقِلُ فَيَتَصَعَّبُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى لَا يَنَالَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ

  And he struggles with the sensible believer, making it so difficult for him that he obtains nothing of what he seeks.

  فَيَتَصَعَّبُ — so it becomes difficult. The prefix fa- marks a consequence, 'and so', and the verb it rides is a present-tense reflexive-pattern verb meaning 'becomes difficult'. So one word carries the result-link plus 'it grows hard'. It moves to the outcome of contending with such a believer.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →