بَارَزَconfront openly

Example sentences

• كُنْتُمْ إِذَا خَلَوْتُمْ بَارَزْتُمُونِي بِالْعَظَائِمِ،

  When you were alone, you would boldly commit great sins against Me,

  بَارَزْتُمُونِي — you would confront Me. A past-tense verb with a plural 'you' subject built in and 'Me' attached as object, 'you confronted Me'. The plural lives in the verb's ending and the suffix names the one defied, here God.

  From: Turned Away at the Gate →

• وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ مَنْ أَهَانَ لِي وَلِيًّا أَوْ أَخَافَهُ فَقَدْ بَارَزَنِي بِالْمُحَارَبَةِ وَبَارَانِي،

  And know that whoever insults for me a close ally or frightens him, has thereby declared war against me and has contended with me.

  بَارَزَنِي — has fought me. This is a past-tense verb of open combat with -ni, the 'me' object, fused to its end, so one word means 'has fought me'. It is the consequence stated under the fa-qad result. The verb's pattern carries a sense of confronting head-on, and the object pronoun is the speaker.

  From: Under God's Shield →