اسْتَيْقَظawoke

Example sentences

• وَلِهَذَا كَانَ الله أَشد فَرحا بتوبة العَبْد من الفاقد لراحلته عَلَيْهَا طَعَامه وَشَرَابه فِي ارْض دوية ملهكة إِذا نَام آيسا مِنْهَا ثمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَوَجَدَهَا

  And for this reason, Allah is more delighted with the repentance of His servant than one who finds his lost mount, upon it his food and drink, in a barren, dangerous land after sleeping in despair of it, then waking to find it.

  اسْتَيْقَظَ — he woke up. A past-tense verb with 'he' built in, in a reflexive pattern that gives the sense of rousing oneself awake. It continues the sequence as 'he woke up', the turning point of the scene.

  From: Worship and Repentance →