شَهْوَةُlust

Example sentences

• وَقِيلَ الصَّبْرُ ثَبَاتٌ بَاعِثٌ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ فِي مُقَابَلَةِ بَاعِثِ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهْوَةِ

  It is said that patience is the steadiness that serves as the driving force of reason and religion in opposing the impulses of desire and lust.

  وَالشَّهْوَةُ — and the lust. Here wa- pairs 'lust' with 'desire' as a matched twosome, both jointly owned by the rival 'driving force'. This is the wa- of pairing, binding the two appetites into one 'desire-and-lust' unit. The noun keeps the genitive of an owner term like its partner.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →