أَفَاقَawaken

Example sentences

• لَو استنشقت ريح الأسحار لأفاق مِنْك قَلْبك المخمور

  If you inhaled the dawn breeze, your intoxicated heart would awaken.

  لَأَفَاقَ — then would awaken. The 'la-' answering the counterfactual, prefixed to a past-tense (form IV) verb 'came to / sobered up' — 'would have come to its senses'. The 'la-' marks the apodosis.

  From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →

• ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَقَالَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ

  Then he regained consciousness and said, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "Have the people prayed?"

  أَفَاقَ — regained consciousness. A completed past verb, 'he recovered', with the 'he' subject built into it; no separate pronoun is needed. It marks his return to consciousness.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَقَالَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ؟ قُلْنَا لَا،

  Then he regained consciousness and asked, "Did the people pray?" We said, "No."

  أَفَاقَ — regained consciousness. A completed past verb, 'he came to / revived', with the 'he' subject folded into its ending rather than spelled out. English needs a pronoun here; Arabic lets the verb's own shape carry the doer, and this one marks his return to awareness.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَقَالَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ فَقُلْنَا لَا،

  Then he regained consciousness and asked, "Had the people prayed?" We said, "No."

  أَفَاقَ — he regained consciousness. A completed past verb, 'he came to / recovered', with the 'he' subject folded into its ending so no separate pronoun is needed. It marks his return to consciousness and sets up the speech that follows.

  From: Prayer During Illness →