4لَقَد خَلَقنَا الإِنسانَ في كَبَدٍMuhammad AsadVerily, We have created man into [a life of] pain, toil and trial.1The term kabad, comprising the concepts of "pain", "ditress", "hardship", "toil", "trial"', etc., can be rendered only by a compound expression like the one above.