بَاعِثُthe prompting

Example sentences

• وَبَاعِثُ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ يَمْنَعُ مِنْهُ

  And the prompting of reason and religion prevents him from it.

  وَبَاعِثٌ — and the prompting. The conjunction wa- ('and') prefixed to the noun 'prompting', resuming the contrast from the prior sentences. The noun is an active participle naming the driver, and it heads an 'of' link with 'reason' next. The wa- ties this counter-force to what came before.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →

• بَاعِثُ الدِّينِ بِالإِضَافَةِ إِلَى بَاعِثِ الهَوَى لَهُ ثَلَاثَةُ أَحْوَالٍ

  The motive of religion, together with the motive of desire, has three states.

  بَاعِثُ — motive. This noun is the subject of the sentence and stands in the nominative, the case Arabic uses to mark the doer or topic. It also opens a possessive pairing with the next word, so it gives up its own 'the' and waits for the owner noun to follow.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• فَيَسْقُطُ مُنَازِعُهُ بَاعِثُ الدِّينِ بِالْكُلِّيَّةِ

  Then his contender, the instigator of religion, collapses completely.

  بَاعِثٍ — the instigator. This noun stands in apposition to 'his contender' before it, renaming the same thing more precisely as 'the instigator'. Apposition in Arabic simply places the clarifying noun beside the first, and it heads a possessive pairing with the next word.

  From: Three States of the Heart →