فَضَّbreak

Example sentences

• وفى رواية فلما قعدت بين رجليها، قالت اتق الله ولا تفض الخاتم إلا بحقه، فانصرفت عنها وهى أحب الناس إلى وتركت الذهب الذى أعطيتها،

  In another version: 'When I sat between her legs, she said: Fear Allah and do not break the seal except with its due right. So I refrained from her though she was the most beloved to me, and I left the gold that I had given her.'

  تَفُضَّ — you break. This is a present-tense verb pulled into the cut-short (jussive) shape by the forbidding 'not' before it, with 'you' in the ending. The clipped form is what marks it as a prohibition, 'do not break', addressed to the man.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →