اِتَّقَوْاbe conscious of

Example sentences

• لِلَّذِينَ اِتَّقَوْا عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ

  For those who were conscious of their Lord, there will be gardens beneath which rivers flow.

  اِتَّقَوْا — they were conscious of. A past-tense verb whose ending -aw marks a third-person 'they' as the doers — those who were mindful of God. Arabic carries the plural subject in this final vowel-and-consonant tail rather than a separate word. It fills out the relative 'those who', naming what made them deserving.

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