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شقاء misery in Arabic

شقاء is how you say “misery” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

كم من لذة حصلها الإنسان في ساعة، فكانت سببًا لشقائه الأبدي

How many a pleasure has a person gained in an hour, which then became a cause of his eternal misery!

لِشَقَائِهِ for his misery

Here 'li-' is fused on as 'for/of' to a noun carrying an attached 'his': for his misery. The preposition governs the noun, the suffix supplies the owner, and the whole marks the misery as belonging to that person.

From Paradise Over Pleasure

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