قَهِرَbe overcome

Example sentences

• وَمَثَلُ الأَوَّلِ كَرَجُلٍ صَارَعَ رَجُلًا شَدِيدًا فَلَا يُقْهَرُ إِلَّا بِتَعَبٍ وَمِشْقَةٍ

  And the example of the first is like a man who wrestled a very strong man; he is not overcome except by fatigue and hardship.

  يُقْهَرُ — is overcome. A present-tense verb in its passive shape: the man is the one acted upon, thrown, rather than the one throwing. Arabic does not add a helper like 'is'; it marks the passive by changing the vowels inside the verb, which is what flips the doer into the receiver here.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →