شَقَاءٌmisery

Example sentences

• وَدُرِكَ الشَّقَاءُ وَسُوءُ الْقَضَاءِ وَشَمَاتَةُ الْأَعْدَاءِ

  And being overtaken by misery, an adverse decree, and the gloating of enemies.

  الشَّقَاءُ — misery. An abstract noun in the nominative serving as the subject of the passive verb before it, the thing said to overtake. With no attached article shown as definite here, it names misery in general as what befalls the person.

  From: Three States of the Heart →