صَّبْرُpatience in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَالصَّبْرُ لَهَا بِمَنْزِلَةٍ الْخِطَامِ وَالزِّمَامِ لِلْمَطِيَّةِ

  And patience for it is like the bit and the rein for the mount.

  وَالصَّبْرُ — and patience. wa- opens a verbless statement, marking 'patience' as the topic. The conjunction ties this onto the mount-image, setting up the simile that follows.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →