طَوِيلlong

Example sentences

• فمن أراد صلاح نفسه، فليجاهدها جهادًا طويلاً، وليصبر على مراغمتها

  So whoever wants to reform himself, let him strive against it with a long struggle, and be patient in opposing it.

  طَوِيلًا — for a long time. An adjective meaning 'long', describing the striving. It follows its noun and copies its object case and indefiniteness, as Arabic adjectives agree with what they describe; together with the cognate noun it stresses a prolonged effort.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →

• ويحك ما أطول أملك وأسوأ عملك

  Woe to you! How long are your hopes, and how bad are your deeds!

  أَطْوَلَ — long. A comparative/elative-shaped word 'longer/how long', used in the fixed wonder-construction 'how X is...!'. After the exclamatory word it functions almost like a verb of astonishment governing 'your hope' as its object. So it does not compare two things here but intensifies - 'how very long'.

  From: Sincere Worship →