Arabic vocabulary
تَكْلِيفٍobligation in Arabic
تَكْلِيفٍ is how you say “obligation” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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