كِفَايَةٌsufficiency

Example sentences

• وَهُوَ الْفَقْرُ اللَّازِمُ فَيَرُدُّكَ عَنْ غِنَى الْكِفَايَةِ

  And it is persistent poverty that turns you away from the wealth of sufficiency.

  الْكِفَايَةِ — of sufficiency. The noun 'sufficiency', made definite by al- ('the'), the owned half of 'the wealth of sufficiency', so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending with no separate word for 'of'. It names the contented self-sufficiency that persistent poverty drives one away from.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →