زُيِّنَBeautified

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  زُيِّنَ — Beautified. This is the passive form of the verb: the love is the thing that gets beautified, and someone or something unnamed does the beautifying. Arabic does not add a helper word like English 'is/was'; it signals the passive by reshaping the internal vowels of the verb, so the word looks close to its active twin but reverses who acts and who is acted upon.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →

• زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ

  People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.

  زُيِّنَ — was made attractive. A past-tense verb in the passive — people are made to find something appealing; no agent is named, though God is understood. Arabic marks the passive by altering the vowels inside the verb rather than adding a helper word, so the form looks close to its active twin but flips who acts on whom.

  From: This World Is Short →