حُبٌّlove

Example sentences

• الْحبّ غَدِير فِي صحراء لَيست عَلَيْهِ جادة

  Love is a spring in the desert without a path leading to it.

  الْحُبُّ — the love. A noun 'love', the topic, nominative, definite. The thing being likened.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• فَكَانَ الْحبّ فِي مُقَدّمَة الْعَسْكَر

  Love was at the forefront of the army.

  الْحُبُّ — love. The subject of 'was', nominative ('-u'), definite — love, the first of the forces. It marched at the head.

  From: Stages of the Seeker →

• ولكن تصده عن الحق شهوات النفس، ووساوس الشيطان، ومجالسة الأشرار، وطول الأمل، وحب الدنيا

  But desires of the self, whispers of Satan, keeping company with the wicked, long hopes, and love of the world divert it from the truth.

  وَحُبُّ — and love of. The wa- adds the last item, and this is the first half of 'love of the world', a verbal noun and the final subject of 'divert', so it stands in the subject case. It owns the link with the noun after it and gives up its own 'the'.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• وهذا التكليف يشق على النفوس، لأنها مجبولة على حب الراحة والاستسلام للشهوات

  And this obligation is burdensome on the souls because they are inclined to love comfort and surrender to desires.

  حُبِّ — love. An action-noun, 'loving', in the genitive after the preposition, and it heads an 'of' pairing, 'love of comfort'. Two nouns sit directly together with no word for 'of'.

  From: Facing God's Tests →