Arabic is Meaning
So consumed by the mechanical grammar of the sentence, I hadn’t thought to step back and consider its actual meaning.
“Indeed Allah is with the patient”. But what does “with” really mean?
As a student at SOAS, I remember reading an Arabic sentence and finding it impossible to translate the word ميكل.
I stressed out about this mysterious word for ages… I went to my Hans Wehr dictionary and couldn’t find the root anywhere…. Google Translate wasn’t any use either.
I wa…
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