Arabic vocabulary
تَكْلِيفٍobligation
How to say “obligation” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فإن النفس أمارة بالسوء، تميل إلى الشهوات، وتأنف من التكاليف، وتفر من المشاق
For the self is inclined to evil, leans towards desires, resents obligations, and flees from hardships.
التَّكَالِيفِ — the obligations. The object of 'from', so it stands in the possessive case, with 'the' marking the known burdens of duty. As a plural it gathers the obligations the self resents.
From: Struggling Against the Self →
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