اللَّذَّاتِthe pleasures in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَلاَ أَقُولُ كَيْفَ تَغَلُّبِ حَلَاوَةٍ اللَّذَّاتِ؟

  Nor will I say, "How did the sweetness of pleasures prevail?!"

  اللَّذَّاتِ — the pleasures. A plural noun made definite by al- ('the pleasures'), the owned half of 'sweetness OF the pleasures', in the genitive as the possessor. Set right after its head-noun with no 'of', it completes the chain and makes the whole phrase definite.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• لِأَنَّ حَلَاوَةَ اللَّذَّاتِ اِسْتَحَالَتْ حَنْظَلًا؛

  Because the sweetness of pleasures has turned into bitterness.

  اللَّذَّاتِ — the pleasures. A plural noun made definite by al- ('the pleasures'), the owned half of 'the sweetness OF the pleasures', in the genitive as the possessor. Placed right after the head-noun with no 'of', it both completes and definitizes the phrase.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →