Arabic vocabulary
حُبَّ is how you say “love” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فيستنفد حبه من قلب العَبْد قُوَّة الْحبّ كلهَا بحب مَا عرفه من صِفَات جماله ونعوت كَمَاله فَيُصْبِح فؤاد عَبده فَارغًا إِلَّا من محبته،
So His love consumes all the strength of love in the heart of the servant due to the love of what he knows of His beauty and the descriptions of His perfection. Thus, the servant's heart becomes empty except for His love.
حُبَّهُ — His love. 'Love' with '-hu' (His) attached, the subject of 'exhausts', nominative — love of Him drains the heart's whole capacity. The suffix here means love directed toward God.
From: Reflecting on God's Names →وَكَانَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ قَدْ عَلِمُوا حُبَّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَائِشَةَ،
And the Muslims already knew that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, loved Aisha.
حُبَّ — love of. An action-noun (a noun made from a verb) meaning 'the loving', and it heads a possessive pairing naming whose love is meant. As the first half of that pair it drops its own 'the' and links straight to the owner after it.
From: Wives of the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like حُبَّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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