أَقَرَّapprove

Example sentences

• فَكَيْفَ يَلِيقُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ وَأَرْحَمِ الرَّاحِمِينَ وَأَقْدَرِ الْقَادِرِينَ أَنْ يُقِرَّهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ؟

  How then can it befit the Most Wise of the wise, the Most Merciful of the merciful, and the Most Powerful of the powerful to approve him in that?

  يُقِرَّهُ — approve him. This verb sits in the subjunctive shape demanded by the particle an before it and carries an attached 'him' object. So one word holds the contemplated action plus its object, 'that He approve him'. The subjunctive ending is the trace of an.

  From: Proof of the True Messenger →

• وأقر بالعجز فخلا لي المعترك،

  And they acknowledged their inability, so the battlefield was left to me.

  وَأَقَرَّ — and he acknowledged. This joins wa- to a past-tense verb whose doer 'he' lives inside its form. Although English renders the doers as 'they', the verb here is singular, treating the group of scholars as a single body that acknowledged its limit.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →