حَاجَتِهِwhat he seeks

Example sentences

• وَيُكَابِدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْعَاقِلُ فَيَتَصَعَّبُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى لَا يَنَالَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ

  And he struggles with the sensible believer, making it so difficult for him that he obtains nothing of what he seeks.

  حَاجَتِهِ — what he seeks. This noun carries an attached '-his' at its end and is governed by the preceding 'of', so it sits in the (genitive); the '-his' points back to the devil, 'his need/objective'. So one word names the need and tracks whose it is. It closes the 'nothing of what he seeks' phrase.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →