جِهَادstruggle

Example sentences

• اعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا كَانَ جِهَادُ النَّفْسِ أَكْبَرَ مِنْ جِهَادِ الأَعْدَاءِ

  Know that the struggle against one's self is indeed greater than the struggle against enemies.

  جِهَادُ — struggle. jihad means 'struggle, striving'; the '-u' ending marks it as the subject, heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word.

  From: Resisting Temptation →

• اعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا كَانَ جِهَادُ النَّفْسِ أَكْبَرَ مِنْ جِهَادِ الأَعْدَاءِ

  Know that the struggle against one's self is indeed greater than the struggle against enemies.

  جِهَادِ — struggle. jihad means 'struggle'; heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word; the noun after 'min'.

  From: Resisting Temptation →

• اشْتَدَّ الْجِهَادُ وَصَعُبَ الأَمْرُ بِخِلافِ جِهَادِ الْكُفَّارِ

  The struggle becomes intense and the matter becomes difficult, unlike the struggle against the disbelievers.

  الْجِهَادُ — the struggle. al- = 'the'; jihad means 'struggle'; the '-u' ending marks it as the subject.

  From: Resisting Temptation →

• اشْتَدَّ الْجِهَادُ وَصَعُبَ الأَمْرُ بِخِلافِ جِهَادِ الْكُفَّارِ

  The struggle becomes intense and the matter becomes difficult, unlike the struggle against the disbelievers.

  جِهَادِ — the struggle against. jihad means 'struggle'; heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word; the noun after 'bi-khilaf'.

  From: Resisting Temptation →

• فمن أراد صلاح نفسه، فليجاهدها جهادًا طويلاً، وليصبر على مراغمتها

  So whoever wants to reform himself, let him strive against it with a long struggle, and be patient in opposing it.

  جِهَادًا — struggle. A verbal noun meaning 'a striving', here repeating the verb's own idea to intensify it, an absolute-object construction. It stands in the object case as this echoing emphasizer, the Arabic way of saying 'strive a real striving'.

  From: Struggling Against the Self →