تَبَيَّنَbe evident

Example sentences

• فَبِضِدِّهَا تَتَبَيَّنُ الْأَشْيَاءُ، وَالضِّدُّ يُظْهِرُ حُسْنَهُ الضِّدُّ، فَمَعْرِفَةُ أَدِلَّةِ الْبَاطِلِ وَشُبَهِهِ مِنْ أَنْوَاعِ أَدِلَّةِ الْحَقِّ وَبَرَاهِينِهِ

  For by their opposites things become clear, and the opposite shows the beauty of its opposite; so knowing the evidence of falsehood and its doubts is itself a type of evidence for truth and its proofs.

  تَتَبَيَّنُ — become evident. This present-tense verb is in a reflexive pattern meaning to become clear of itself, with a built-in plural subject. The pattern carries 'come to show themselves'; the subject is the 'things' named next, after the verb in normal order.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →