صَدَأٌrust in Arabic

Example sentences

• فإن القلب كالمرآة، والشهوات كالصدأ، وذكر الله كالماء الذي يجلوه

  For the heart is like a mirror, and desires are like rust; remembrance of God is like water that purifies it.

  الصَّدَإِ — rust. The thing desires are compared to, 'rust', carrying the genitive ending because the attached 'like' governs it. The comparison sets up the idea that desires corrode the heart the way rust dulls a mirror.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →