بَلَغbefallen

Example sentences

• ألا تشفع لنا إلى ربك؟ ألا ترى ما نحن فيه، وما بلغنا؟

  Will you not intercede for us with your Lord? Do you not see the state we are in and what has befallen us?

  بَلَغْنَا — has befallen us. A past-tense verb with a 'us' pronoun fused on as its object, meaning 'reached us'. The thing that arrives is the verb's hidden subject, while the attached 'us' is the one it overtook, so the speakers are grammatically the receivers.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →