تَوَلَّى assume in Arabic
تَوَلَّى is how you say “assume” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَوْلُهُمْ مَنْ أَعَانَ ظَالِمًا سَلَّطَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، مَذْكُورٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى كَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ مَنْ تَوَلَّاهُ فَأَنَّهُ يُضِلُّهُ
And their saying: 'Whoever supports a tyrant, Allah will empower him against them' is mentioned in His saying: 'He has decreed that whoever takes him as an ally, He will misguide him.'
تَوَلَّاهُ takes him as an ally
This is a past verb 'he took as a friend, allied with' carrying the attached 'him' as object, pointing to the tyrant. The 'he' doer is inside the verb. It is the condition: whoever befriends him. The suffix tracks the tyrant, so following the reference matters.
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وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى يُوسُف فَتَوَلّى عَنْهُم وَقَالَ يَا أسفي على يُوسُف وابيضت عَيناهُ من الْحزن فَهُوَ كظيم
And from this is His saying in Surah Yusuf: 'So he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my grief over Yusuf!" And his eyes turned white from sadness, for he was suppressing it.'
فَتَوَلَّى so he turned away
A 'so/then' connector fused to a past verb, 'so he turned away'. The 'so' marks this as the next narrated step; the verb carries its own 'he', the grieving father.
كما قال أبو بكر الصديق ﵁ حين تولى أمر المسلمين وخطبهم،
As Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said when he assumed responsibility over the Muslims and addressed them,
تَوَلَّى he assumed
A past-tense verb, 'took charge / assumed', with a hidden 'he' subject reaching back to Abu Bakr. It heads the 'when' clause and leads into an 'of' pairing with what he took charge of.