غَالِبoverpowering in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا عَرَفَ الْعَاقِلُ أَنَّ الْهَوَى يَصِيرُ غَالِبًا

  If the rational person knows that desire becomes dominant,

  غَالِبًا — dominant. The predicate of 'becomes', so accusative — Arabic puts the 'X' in 'becomes X' into the object form. Indefinite, hence 'something dominant'.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →

• علم الحديث والمحدثون فغالبهم لا يفقهون ولا همة لهم في معرفة الحديث ولا في التدين به، بل الصحيح والموضوع عندهم بنسبة

  The science of Hadith and its scholars: most of them do not understand, nor do they care about knowing the Hadith or practicing it; rather, the authentic and the fabricated are the same to them.

  فَغَالِبُهُمْ — most of them. This fronts fa- onto a noun 'most/majority' with 'them' attached - 'their majority'. The fa- here begins the comment about the topic just named, a resumptive 'as for them, most...'; it does not translate as 'so' in English. The noun heads an 'of' link with the attached 'them', meaning 'most of them', and serves as subject of the negative verb to come.

  From: Sincere Worship →