صَدَّقaffirm

Example sentences

• وَلَا أُيِّدُوا وَنُصِرُوا وَلَا ظَهَرَتْ عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمُ الْآيَاتُ، وَلَا صَدَّقَهُمُ الرَّبُّ تَعَالَى بِإِقْرَارِهِ وَلَا بِفِعْلِهِ وَلَا بِقَوْلِهِ

  They were neither supported nor aided, nor did signs appear by their hands, nor did the Lord, Exalted be He, affirm them by His acknowledgment, action, or speech.

  صَدَّقَهُمُ — did affirm them. This is a past-tense verb in the doubled-middle pattern meaning to affirm as true, with an attached object pronoun, 'affirmed them', the pronoun pointing to the kings. Under the negation it means God did not confirm them; the subject follows next.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →