مُقْبِلٍapproaching

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَاعٍ مُقْبِلٍ بِغَنَمِهِ إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ

  Then I came upon a shepherd approaching the rock with his flock.

  مُقْبِلٍ — approaching. A doer-noun built from a verb, describing the shepherd as 'approaching', and it agrees with that shepherd in being indefinite, shown by its '-in' tail. Such active descriptions follow their noun and copy its definiteness. It tells you what the shepherd was in the act of doing.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →