حلاوةsweetness

Example sentences

• تذكر حلاوة الْوِصَال يهن عَلَيْك مر المجاهدة

  Remember the sweetness of reunion, and the bitterness of struggle will become easy for you.

  حَلَاوَةَ — the sweetness. 'Sweetness', the object of 'remember', accusative ('-a'), and first term of an 'of' pairing — 'the sweetness of reunion'. It owns the noun that follows.

  From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →

• فالعاقل لا ينظر إلى حلاوة اللذة وعذوبتها، ولكن ينظر إلى ما تؤول إليه

  So the wise person does not look at the sweetness of the pleasure and its delight, but rather looks at what it leads to.

  حَلَاوَةِ — the sweetness. This noun opens a possessive pair, 'sweetness of the pleasure', linked straight to the owning noun with no word for 'of'. Governed by the preceding 'at', it sits in that form.

  From: Paradise Over Pleasure →

• فالمؤمن يزن الأمور بميزان العاقبة، ولا يغتر بحلاوة الشهوة العاجلة

  The believer weighs matters with the scale of the outcome and is not deceived by the sweetness of immediate desire.

  بِحَلَاوَةِ — by the sweetness of. Here 'bi-' is fused on as 'by' to a noun opening a possessive pair, 'the sweetness of desire'. The preposition marks the cause of the would-be deception; the noun links to its owner with no word for 'of'.

  From: Paradise Over Pleasure →