الصَّبْرُpatience

Example sentences

• وَالصَّبْرُ وَالشَّجَاعَةُ وَالثَّبَاتُ

  And patience, courage, and steadfastness.

  وَالصَّبْرُ — and patience. Here wa- opens a list, prefixed to the definite noun 'patience', and is the plain coordinating 'and' that strings the items together. It marks 'patience' as the first member of the series that follows. The al- gives 'the' without a separate word.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →