أَمَرcommanded

Example sentences

• ولا تدابروا، وكونوا عباد الله إخوانًا كما أمركم

  And do not turn away from one another, and be, O servants of Allah, brothers as He commanded you.

  أَمَرَكُمْ — He commanded you. A past-tense verb with the attached 'you all' as its object, so one word means 'he commanded you'. The doer 'he' is inside the verb's shape and points back to God, while the suffixed pronoun marks the listeners as the ones commanded; Arabic packs subject, action, and object into a single form here.

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• فيقول بعض الناس لبعض أبوكم آدم، ويأتونه فيقولون يا آدم أنت أبو البشر، خلقك الله بيده، ونفخ فيك من روحه، وأمر الملائكة، فسجدوا لك وأسكنك الجنة،

  Some of the people will say to others: "Your father Adam," and they will go to him and say: "O Adam, you are the father of humanity. Allah created you with His hand, breathed into you of His spirit, commanded the angels, and they prostrated to you and placed you in Paradise."

  وَأَمَرَ — and commanded. The wa- on the front is the linking 'and', adding another of God's deeds. The past-tense verb carries 'he' inside it, so it reads 'and he commanded', the subject staying the same across the listed actions.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →