المَسْئُولasked

Example sentences

• قَالَ مَا الْمَسْئُولُ عَنْهَا بِأَعْلَمَ مِنْ السَّائِلِ

  He said, 'The one being asked does not know more about it than the one asking.'

  الْمَسْئُولُ — the one being asked. The subject of the denial, a noun built from a passive participle 'the one asked', so it means the one who is questioned rather than the questioner. Carrying al- ('the'), it is definite and stands in the nominative as what the sentence is about. The passive sense is baked into the word's pattern.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →