فَسَدَbecome corrupt

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا تَرَكْتَ الأَمْرَ إِلَيْهَا فَسَدَتْ

  And if you leave the matter to it, it becomes corrupt.

  فَسَدَتْ — it becomes corrupt. Past-tense verb 'fasadat' = 'it went bad, spoiled'; '-at' marks feminine 'it'.

  From: Faith as Light →

• وَإذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ،

  and if it is corrupted, the whole body is corrupted.

  فَسَدَ — is corrupted. The same verb without the feminine ending, masculine for 'the body', as the result: 'the whole body goes corrupt'. The structure mirrors the soundness sentence exactly.

  From: The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey →

• وَإِذا فَسدتْ فسد لَهَا سَائِر الْجَسَد وَهِي الْقلب

  And if it becomes corrupt, the whole body becomes corrupt, and it is the heart.

  فَسَدَ — it became corrupt. Past-form verb, 'it became corrupt', as the answer-half of the condition, with masculine agreement matching 'the body' that follows. The shift from feminine to masculine across the two verbs tracks the change of subject.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →

• فإذا صلحوا صلح الناس، وإذا فسدوا فسد الناس،

  If they are righteous, the people will be righteous; and if they are corrupt, the people will be corrupt.

  فَسَدُوا — they are corrupt. A past-tense verb carrying its 'they' subject in the plural ending, read as a supposition under 'when', 'when they become corrupt'. It mirrors the earlier 'sound' verb to set the contrasting case.

  From: Obedience to God and Authority →

• فإذا صلحوا صلح الناس، وإذا فسدوا فسد الناس،

  If they are righteous, the people will be righteous; and if they are corrupt, the people will be corrupt.

  فَسَدَ — will be corrupt. A past-tense verb with a hidden 'he/it' subject as the result of the second condition, 'then the people become corrupt'. The past form again carries the consequence of the 'when' clause.

  From: Obedience to God and Authority →