وَجَبَ became necessary in Arabic
وَجَبَ is how you say “became necessary” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَرْفَعَ كُلَّ حَادِثَةٍ إِلَى حَاكِمِ الْعَقْلِ
He must refer every occurrence to the judge of reason.
وَجَبَ He must
A past-tense verb meaning 'it became obligatory'. Arabic frames duty impersonally — 'it is required that...' — rather than with a modal like English 'must'.
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فمن كان خطؤه لتفريطه فيما يجب عليه من اتباع القرآن والإيمان مثلا،
Whoever errs due to negligence in following the Qur'an and faith, for example,
يَجِبُ is required
Present 'is obligatory, binding', subject 'it' inside — 'what is required'.
يجب مع الذكر عند مالك وأحمد، فإذا تركه عمداً بطلت صلاته،
It is obligatory with remembrance according to Malik and Ahmad; if he deliberately omits it, his prayer is invalidated.
يَجِبُ is obligatory
Present 'is obligatory', subject 'it' inside — the ruling.
وأما الدعاء فلم يجب منه دعاء مفرد أصلاً،
As for supplication, no specific supplication is obligatory at all.
يَجِبْ is obligatory
'be obligatory', jussive (clipped) after 'lam' — 'has not become obligatory'; subject 'a supplication' next.
بل ما وجب من الفاتحة وجب بعد الثناء
However, the obligation of Al-Fatiha comes after the praise.
وَجَبَ is obligatory
Past 'became obligatory', subject 'it' inside — closing 'what is obligatory'.
بل ما وجب من الفاتحة وجب بعد الثناء
However, the obligation of Al-Fatiha comes after the praise.
وَجَبَ is obligatory
Past 'became obligatory' — repeated as the main predicate: 'what is obligatory... is obligatory [only] after...'.
يجب مع الذكر عند مالك وأحمد،
It is required along with remembrance according to Malik and Ahmad,
يَجِبُ it is required
Present 'is obligatory, required', subject 'it' inside — the ruling.
وأما الدعاء فلم يجب منه دعاء مفرد أصلاً،
As for supplication, no specific supplication is obligatory at all,
يَجِبْ it is obligatory
'be obligatory', jussive (clipped) after 'lam' — 'has not become obligatory'; subject 'a supplication' next.
بل ما وجب من الفاتحة وجب بعد الثناء،
Rather, what is obligatory from the Fatiha is required after the praise,
وَجَبَ has become obligatory
A past-tense verb carrying its own 'it' inside, so no separate pronoun is written. The root sense is that something settled as a binding duty, and the perfect tense frames it as an established fact rather than an ongoing process.
بل ما وجب من الفاتحة وجب بعد الثناء،
Rather, what is obligatory from the Fatiha is required after the praise,
وَجَبَ has become required
The same past-tense verb repeated to launch the main statement after the opening clause, its subject again folded inside and pointing back to 'what'. The repetition is the sentence's backbone: the first naming the topic, this one delivering the ruling.
وكذلك التشهد الأول، يجب مع الذكر عند مالك وأحمد،
Similarly, the first Tashahhud is obligatory with remembrance according to Malik and Ahmad.
يَجِبُ is obligatory
A present-tense verb 'is obligatory', with its third-person subject built into the form, stating the legal ruling. The plain present here expresses a standing rule rather than a one-time event, so it reads as 'it is required'.