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مَكَن possible in Arabic

مَكَن is how you say “possible” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فمجاهدتها أشق من مجاهدة العدو الظاهر؛ لأن العدو الظاهر يمكن الفرار منه أو قهره، وأما النفس فملازمة للإنسان لا تفارقه

So struggling against it is harder than struggling against a visible enemy; for a visible enemy can be escaped or conquered, but the self is ever-present with the person and does not leave him.

يُمْكِنُ can

A present-tense verb meaning 'is possible', with 'it' as its impersonal subject, 'one can'. Its real subject is the noun for 'escape' that follows, with which it agrees; Arabic often places this kind of verb before that subject.

From Struggling Against the Self

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