عَقَّdisobey

Example sentences

• والبنين وكم صغر قاسى الأب لأجل الصغار، فلما ترقوا فعقوا والعقوق من الذنوب الكبار،

  And the children, how much hardship the father endures for the sake of the young; but when they grow up, they disobey, and disobedience is among the grave sins,

  فَعَقُّوا — so they disobey. The 'so/then' prefix presents this as the immediate, almost jarring result of the previous clause, and the past-tense verb carries its plural 'they' subject in the doubled-letter ending. The connector ties cause to effect tightly: they grew, and at once they rebelled.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →