حَاجَةٌneed

Example sentences

• وَأَنْزِلْهَا مَنْزِلَةَ مَنْ لَا حَاجَةَ لَهُ فِيهَا وَلا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا

  Place it in the position of one who has no desire for it yet cannot do without it.

  حَاجَةَ — need. 'haja' = 'need'. With 'la' before it: 'no need'.

  From: Faith as Light →

• افصل بين الحاجة والرغبة؛ الحاجة تُقيمك، والرغبة إن تُركت بلا ضابط تستهلكك

  Distinguish between need and desire; need establishes you, while desire, if left unchecked, consumes you.

  الْحَاجَةِ — need. 'al-' = 'the'; 'haja' = 'need'; takes the 'of' ending after 'bayna'.

  From: On Sincerity →

• افصل بين الحاجة والرغبة؛ الحاجة تُقيمك، والرغبة إن تُركت بلا ضابط تستهلكك

  Distinguish between need and desire; need establishes you, while desire, if left unchecked, consumes you.

  الْحَاجَةُ — need. 'al-' = 'the'; 'haja' = 'need'. Subject of the next clause, 'the need'.

  From: On Sincerity →

• تنادوا هلموا إلى حاجتكم،

  they call out: "Come to what you seek!"

  حَاجَتِكُمْ — what you seek. Genitive after 'to', this is 'your need / object' with attached 'your' — 'what you seek'. The pronoun addresses the summoned angels. So 'come to your goal', meaning the circle of remembrance worth gathering at.

  From: Where Angels Gather →

• قَالَ فَحَاجَةٌ قَالَ هَاتِ مَا لَمْ تَكُنْ رَزِيَّةً فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ

  He said, then Hajja said, "Bring what would not be a calamity for the religion of God."

  فَحَاجَةٌ — then Hajja. A noun opened by the attached 'then/so', read here as a speaker's name introducing the next turn. The prefix sequences this into the exchange.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →

• قَالَ إِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ، وَلِيَّ حَاجَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ

  He said, "I am in need, and I have dependents, and I have an urgent need."

  حَاجَةٌ — a need. An indefinite feminine noun standing as the thing the speaker 'has', the subject of the have-clause. Its feminine gender will be matched by the adjective after it; with no 'the' it states a need in general, awaiting that describing word.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَبَابُهَا مِنْ جَرِيدٍ حَتَّى قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَاجَتَهُ،

  And its opening was from palm branches, until the Messenger of God had finished his need.

  حَاجَتَهُ — his need. A noun fused with 'his', 'his need', the object the Messenger finished; the attached 'his' names whose need it was. It is the thing the finishing verb acted on.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →