نَصَبtoil

Example sentences

• وَذَلِكَ شَيْء لَا تَعب عَلَيْك فِيهِ وَلَا نصب وَلَا معاناة

  And this is something that does not burden you with effort, nor toil, nor hardship.

  نَصَبٌ — toil. A second negated noun, 'strain', heaped beside the first. Arabic often stacks near-synonyms under repeated negation to drive home that there is utterly none of it.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →

• وَلَيْسَ للجوارح فِي هذَيْن نصب وَلَا تَعب

  And for the limbs, there is no toil or hardship in these two tasks.

  نَصَبٌ — toil. The noun whose existence is denied, 'strain', left indefinite to mean 'any at all'. As the thing that 'is not there', it carries the indefinite subject ending.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →