الأَنْفُسَthe souls

Example sentences

• وَيَهِشُّونَ لَهَا، لِأَنَّهَا تَجْمَعُ الأَنْفُسَ وَتُرِيحُ الْقَلْبَ مِنْ كَدِّ الْفِكْرِ

  And they are delighted by it, because it gathers the souls and eases the heart from the toil of thought.

  النفس — the souls. The al- makes this definite, 'the' souls/selves, the known whole. It stands as the thing the previous verb acts on, so it serves as the receiver-of-the-action (object) of 'gathers'.

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