دَاعِيِurging

Example sentences

• وَلَا صَبْرُ لَهُ عَنْ دَاعِيِ هَوَاهُ إِلَى اِرْتِكَابِ مَا نُهِىَ عَنْهُ

  And he has no patience to resist the urging of his desire to commit what he was forbidden to do.

  داعي — urging. An active participle, a noun-like form built off a verb that names the doer of an action ('the caller/urger'). Here it heads an 'of' pairing, owned by 'his desire' next, so it is the urging that desire produces. As an active participle it pictures an ongoing pull rather than a one-time event.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →