Arabic vocabulary
نَسْأَلُ is how you say “ask” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
نسأل الله السلامة،
We ask Allah for safety.
نَسْأَلُ — we ask. 'we ask,' present — the 'we' in the front prefix. A pious aside. It takes two objects — the one asked (God) and the thing requested (safety), Arabic letting 'ask' govern both directly, as the next words show.
From: Revelation Over Philosophy →نسأل الله العفو،
We ask Allah for forgiveness,
نَسْأَلُ — we ask. This present verb, 'we ask', carries 'we' inside its prefix. Crucially, 'ask' in Arabic takes TWO direct objects with no preposition — the one asked and the thing requested — both in the accusative. So watch for two bare accusative nouns to follow.
From: Sincere Preaching →نَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ العَفْوَ وَالسِّتْرَ
We ask God for forgiveness and to conceal our faults.
نَسْأَلُ — we ask. This is a present-tense verb whose doer is a built-in 'we', so the speaker-group is part of the verb itself with no separate pronoun. In this devotional setting the plain present carries a request sense, 'we ask', framing a collective supplication addressed to God.
From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →نَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ التَّوْفِيقَ لِاتِّبَاعِهِمْ،
We ask God for success in following them.
نَسْأَلُ — we ask. A present-tense verb in the 'we' shape, its plural-speaker subject built into the form, used here as a prayer or petition. The shift to 'we' marks the author folding himself and his readers together into a shared supplication that the rest of the sentence spells out.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →OpenArabic teaches words like نَسْأَلُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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