اِهْتَدَىbe guided

Example sentences

• اللَّهُمَّ لَوْلَا أَنْتَ مَا اِهْتَدَيْنَا وَلَا تَصَدَّقْنَا وَلَا صَلَّيْنَا

  O Allah, were it not for You, we would not have been guided, we would not have given charity, and we would not have prayed.

  اِهْتَدَيْنَا — we were guided. A finished-action verb with -na fixing the doers as 'we', the subject built in. Under the counterfactual negation it reads as 'we would not have been guided', its past shape pulled into an unreal-conditional sense by the frame around it.

  From: The Martyr's Reward →

• فَقَالَ تَعَالَىٰ وَبِقَوْلِهِ إِهْتَدَى الْمُهْتَدُونَ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْهُمْ أَئِمَّةً يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا

  He, the Exalted, said: By His word the rightly guided were guided, and We made from among them leaders who guide by Our command because they were patient.

  إِهْتَدَى — was guided. A completed-action verb here showing the classic pattern where a singular-looking verb precedes a plural doer. In this older style the verb stays in its base shape and the plural subject follows it.

  From: Patience and God's Help →