كَظِيمsuppressing

Example sentences

• وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى يُوسُف فَتَوَلّى عَنْهُم وَقَالَ يَا أسفي على يُوسُف وابيضت عَيناهُ من الْحزن فَهُوَ كظيم

  And from this is His saying in Surah Yusuf: 'So he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my grief over Yusuf!" And his eyes turned white from sadness, for he was suppressing it.'

  كَظِيمٌ — suppressing. An intensive adjective, 'choking back grief', the predicate of 'he was one suppressing it'. This pattern names a person filled with a quality; it describes him as holding his sorrow in, with no verb 'was'.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →