اعْتَصَمَcling

Example sentences

• اعْلَم يَا أخي أَن العَبْد إِذا اعْتصمَ بِحَبل السُّلْطَان الْمَخْلُوق سلم من شَرّ الظَّالِمين

  Know, my brother, that if a servant clings to the rope of the created ruler, he is safe from the evil of the oppressors.

  اعْتَصَمَ — clings. This past-tense verb carries its own 'he' subject inside it. Although the sentence reads as a general rule, Arabic states the condition with a completed-action verb, a normal way to express a recurring 'whenever he does X'.

  From: Ten Daily Supplications →