الْهَجْرُthe estrangement

Example sentences

• لَيْتَ شَعْرِيَ وَقَدْ تَمَادَى بِكَ الْهَجْرُ أَمْ مِنْكَ التَّفْرِيطُ أَمْ كَانَ مِنِّي،

  I wish I knew: now that estrangement toward you has gone so far, was the negligence yours, or was it mine?

  الْهَجْرُ — the estrangement. This definite noun is the doer of the 'has gone far' verb, standing in the basic (nominative) shape a subject takes, even though it follows the verb. Its 'the' marks it as the known thing in question. It names the estrangement that has overrun.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →