مَقَاصِدpurposes

Example sentences

• من أدبِه أن يلزمَ المرءُ تواضعًا معرفيًّا يرى الدليلَ، ويدركُ حدودَ فهمه، ويستحضر أن المقاصدَ أوسعُ من جزئيةٍ واحدة

  Part of its etiquette is that a person maintains intellectual humility: seeing the evidence, recognizing the limits of his understanding, and remembering that the objectives are broader than a single issue.

  المَقَاصِدَ — purposes. A broken plural, 'the objectives / aims,' in the -a form because 'that' before it forces its subject there. The proposition he holds: these higher aims are broader than any single issue, as the predicate says.

  From: Mercy in Disagreement →