جَاعَbecame hungry

Example sentences

• ولو أن إنسانًا جاع فلم يأكل، أو احتاج فلم يسأل، أو عري فلم يلبس، فمات دخل النار،

  And if a person goes hungry and does not eat, or is in need and does not ask, or is unclothed and does not dress, and dies, he enters the Fire,

  جَاعَ — goes hungry. This past-tense verb has its 'he' subject built in and states the supposed condition, 'went hungry'. It supplies the first link in the chain of imagined neglect.

  From: Trust in God →

• من جاع فلم يسأل حتى مات دخل النار

  Whoever goes hungry and does not ask until he dies, enters the Fire.

  جَاعَ — goes hungry. A past-tense verb forming the condition after 'whoever'. In this rule-setting frame the past tense reads as a timeless 'should anyone go hungry', not a one-off finished event, which is how Arabic states general conditions.

  From: Trust in God →