أَشَدُّmost

Example sentences

• أَمَّا وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ مَنَعْتَنِي هَذَا لَأَمْنَعَنَّكَ مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ

  By God, if you prevent me from this, I will surely prevent you from something that will be harder on you than this.

  أَشَدُّ — harder. A comparison adjective, 'more severe', built to outrank something. It heads a 'harder than...' frame whose point of comparison is supplied by the 'than it' phrase coming up.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →

• الْمَثَلُ الثَّانِيُ الظَّبْيُ أَشَدُّ سَعْيًا مِنَ الْكَلْبِ،

  The second example: the gazelle exerts itself more than the dog.

  أَشَدُّ — more intense. An elative 'more intense/greater', the predicate describing the gazelle, built on the 'more/most' pattern. It opens a comparison and needs both a clarifying word (in what respect) and a standard (than what), both supplied next. With the topic it gives 'the gazelle is greater...'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →

• وَأَشَدُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنْ يَقَعَ السُرُورَ بِمَا هُوَ عُقُوبَةٌ،

  Even more severe than that is taking pleasure in what is a punishment.

  وَأَشَدُّ — and more severe. Two pieces fuse: wa- ('and') tying this to the prior maxim, and a comparative-superlative adjective 'more severe', which bundles 'more' into its shape. Used as the predicate, it ranks the next idea above the punishment just described. The wa- sets up the escalation.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →