أَلِمَpain

Example sentences

• وَإِنْ كَانَتْ سَبَبًا لِلأَلَمِ وَالأَذَى فِي الْعَاجِلِ وَمَنْعِ لَذَّاتٍ فِي الآجِلِ

  Even if it causes pain and harm immediately and deprives pleasure in the future.

  لِلْأَلَمِ — for pain. The li- ties this to what the cause is a cause OF and forces the genitive; it has also swallowed the noun's 'the' into the spelling, so 'for the pain' arrives as one written word.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →

• فَأَمَّا الْعَاقِلُ فَإِنَّهُ يَنْهَى نَفْسَهُ عَنْ لَذَّةٍ تُعَقِّبُ أَلَمًا

  As for the rational person, he restrains himself from pleasure that is followed by pain.

  أَلَمًا — pain. The object of 'follows', so accusative and indefinite — pain as the result that trails the pleasure.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →