كُنْbe

Example sentences

• وصيرها مساكن الخلق تربيهم صغارًا وتضمهم رفاتا،

  And He made it a dwelling for His creatures — raising them as children and gathering them as remains.

  كن — Be!. A command-form verb, 'Be!', the shortest order, addressed to creation. It is the bare command shape with the 'you' built in; this is the divine word that brings things into being.

  From: God's Sovereignty in Creation →

• وَكُنْ بَاحِثًا عَنْ دَفَائِنِ هَوَاهَا لَعَلَّكِ تَسْلَمِينَ،

  And be searching for the hidden treasures of its desire, that perhaps you may be saved,

  وكن — and be. A command fronted by 'wa-' (and), built from the verb 'to be', so it orders the listener into a continuing state rather than a single act. It sets up 'be (in the state of)...', with the participle that follows naming the state it ushers in.

  From: Guidance for the Seeker →

• وَلَا تَكُنْ مِمَّنْ أَدْخَلَهُ طَلَبُ الْحِدَاثِ النَّارَ،

  Do not be among those whom the pursuit of novelty has led into the Fire.

  تَكُنْ — you be. This is the verb 'to be' in its clipped command (jussive) shape, pushed there by the prohibiting 'la' before it, with a 'you' addressee built in. The altered ending is the grammatical signal that this is a 'do not be...' prohibition; what the listener is warned away from being follows next.

  From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →