Arabic vocabulary
سَتَرَ is how you say “conceal” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وَمَنْ سَتَرَ مُسْلِما سَتَرَهُ اللهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ ،
And whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults in this world and in the Hereafter.
سَتَرَ — he conceals. A past verb, 'cover, screen', subject 'he' inside, the condition's verb. It takes its object directly, here the Muslim whose faults are hidden.
From: Easing a Believer's Hardship →وَمَنْ سَتَرَ مُسْلِما سَتَرَهُ اللهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ ،
And whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults in this world and in the Hereafter.
سَتَرَهُ — will conceal him. The same 'conceal' verb as the result, with God the subject (named next) and '-hu' the object 'him': 'God conceals him'. The reward repeats the deed, now toward the doer.
From: Easing a Believer's Hardship →وستر العواقب فكم مطرود في حلل التعبد يميس،
And He concealed the consequences, so how many rejected are adorned in the garments of devotion, swaying.
سَتَرَ — He concealed. A past-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject; the doer is God from context. It reports a completed act of concealing, the singular masculine form matching that understood divine subject.
From: Adam and the Rebel →وَلِيُشَهِّرَنَّهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بَعْدَ أَنْ سَتَرَهُ مَرَّاتٍ ،
And may Allah the Exalted expose him after He had concealed him several times,
سَتَرَهُ — He concealed him. This is a past-tense verb with the divine 'He' subject carried inside it and an attached '-hu' (him) as its object, so 'He concealed him' lives in one word. The '-hu' points back to the same offender, so the verb already encodes both who acted and who was covered.
From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →OpenArabic teaches words like سَتَرَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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