Arabic vocabulary
عَصَىdisobey
How to say “disobey” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
والضعيف فيكم القوي عندي حتى آخذ له الحق، أطيعوني ما أطعت الله فإذا عصيت الله فلا طاعة لي عليكم
And the weak among you is strong to me until I take his right for him. Obey me as long as I obey Allah. If I disobey Allah, then you owe me no obedience.
عَصَيْتُ — I disobey. A past-tense verb carrying its 'I' subject in the ending; under the conditional 'if', the past form reads as a supposition, 'if I disobey'. It mirrors the earlier 'obey' to set the contrasting case.
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