كُلّمَاwhenever

Example sentences

• فكلما أكثر العبد من الذكر، صفا قلبه، واتضح له الحق

  The more a servant remembers, the purer his heart becomes and the clearer the truth appears to him.

  كُلَّمَا — the more. A correlation word meaning 'the more... the more', setting up a sliding scale where one thing rises with another. It needs two clauses to complete it, and Arabic links them by simple parallel structure rather than English's paired 'the... the'.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• وكلما اشتغل بالشهوات، كدر قلبه، واشتبه عليه الأمر

  But the more he engages in desires, the murkier his heart becomes, and things become confused for him.

  وَكُلَّمَا — but the more. The connector 'and' joined to the 'the more... the more' correlation word, opening the contrasting case. It sets up another sliding scale, this time with a bad outcome, balanced against the good one just before.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →