شَهَوَاتٌ lusts in Arabic
شَهَوَاتٌ is how you say “lusts” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أُطْلِقَ ذَمُّ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهَوَاتِ لِعُمُومِ غَلَبَةِ الضَّرَرِ
Desire and lusts were condemned in general because harm usually prevails.
وَالشَّهَوَاتِ and lusts
'wa-' = 'and'; 'al-' = 'the'; genitive (plural), joined to 'desire'.
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لَو تغذى الْقلب بالمحبة لذهبت عَنهُ بطنة الشَّهَوَات
If the heart were nourished with love, the gluttony of desires would depart from it.
الشَّهَوَاتِ of desires
A sound feminine plural 'desires / cravings', the owner completing 'the gluttony of desires', genitive. The bloated appetites that love would have driven off.
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.
لِلشَّهَوَاتِ to desires
A noun bundling the 'to/for' prefix with 'the', 'to the desires', the target the soul surrenders to. The prefix governs it into the genitive, and one word carries preposition, article, and noun together.
الْمُقْبِلُ عَلَى دُنْيَاهِ وَشَهَوَاتِهَا فَقَطَّ
The one who is intent only on his worldly life and its desires.
وَشَهَوَاتِهَا and its desires
Two pieces: wa- ('and') adds a second object of his attention, and the noun carries -ha ('its') at the end. The feminine attached pronoun points back to the worldly life, so 'its desires' belong to that life, the referent reaching back across the word.