حَاضِرَةٌpresent

Example sentences

• اعْلَمْ أَنَّ مُطْلَقَ الْهَوَى يَدْعُو إِلَى اللَّذَّةِ الْحَاضِرَةِ مِنْ غَيْرِ فِكْرٍ فِي عَاقِبَةٍ

  Know that unchecked desire calls towards immediate pleasure without considering the consequences.

  الْحَاضِرَةِ — immediate. An adjective trailing its noun — Arabic puts describers after the thing described — and copying that noun on three fronts at once: its 'the', its feminine gender, and its genitive ending.

  From: The Discipline of Foresight →