مَكَنpossible

Example sentences

• 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 →