الصُّعُوبَةِthe difficulty

Example sentences

• الَّتِي تَتَنَاهَى إِلَى نِهَايَةِ الصُّعُوبَةِ،

  which reach the very limits of difficulty,

  الصُّعُوبَةِ — the difficulty. The al- marks this as definite, and as the owned tail of the possessive chain it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending, naming what the utmost belongs to: difficulty. Its 'l' assimilates in sound into the noun's first 'sun letter', doubling that consonant in speech; the phrase caps the image as 'the very limit of difficulty'.

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