هَوَاهَاits desire

Example sentences

• وَكُنْ بَاحِثًا عَنْ دَفَائِنِ هَوَاهَا لَعَلَّكِ تَسْلَمِينَ،

  And be searching for the hidden treasures of its desire, that perhaps you may be saved,

  هَوَاهَا — its desire. A noun closed by '-ha', the second half of the 'of' pairing and the owner of the treasures just named, with the possessor glued to its end. The suffix reaches back to the self, so 'its' here means the self's, and tracing that link is part of the reading.

  From: Guidance for the Seeker →

• الْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتَّبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا وَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ الأَمَانِيَ

  The helpless one is the one who follows his own self its desire and wishes on Allah the wishes.

  هَوَاهَا — its desire. A noun with -ha ('its') fused to its end, 'its desire', as a second object in the clause. The feminine attached pronoun points back to the self just named, not to the man directly, so tracking that referent is part of reading it.

  From: Three States of the Heart →