مُلَازِمpresent

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.

  فَمُلَازِمَةٌ — so is ever-present. The fa- here is the answer-marker that the 'as for' construction requires before its comment, so it links topic to predicate. The word it leads is an active participle meaning 'clinging', the predicate describing the self as ever-attached.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →