Category: Understanding Words
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Difference between the words أمل ورجاء وطمع that mean “Hope”
All three are synonyms to one another and can take a meaning in English that is loosely translated to mean hoping, desiring, wishing, etc. However, the beauty of the Arabic language is that there are no two words that have the same exact meaning (Ibn Taymiyyah expounds on this in his Muqadimah Usul Tafsir for…