Arabic vocabulary
الشَّوَاغِلِworldly distractions in Arabic
الشَّوَاغِلِ is how you say “worldly distractions” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَإِذَا عَادَ إِلَى الشَّوَاغِلِ، اِجْتَذَبَهُ بِآفَاتِهَا،
When he returns to worldly distractions, their afflictions draw him back.
الشَّوَاغِلِ — worldly distractions. This is a broken-plural noun wearing 'the', the endpoint of the returning, sitting in the genitive the preposition governs. It names the worldly pulls he goes back to.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →
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