أَقْبَلَتْdrew near

Example sentences

• أَقْبَلَتْ أَغْبَاشُ الظُّلُمَاتِ فَعَادَتِ الأَهْوَاءُ تُنْشِئُ بَدْعًا

  The darkened masses drew near, and desires returned, bringing forth innovations.

  أَقْبَلَتْ — drew near. A past-tense verb whose feminine-singular ending encodes the subject as a single feminine thing, the one that follows. The doer is carried by the ending, so no separate pronoun is needed.

  From: Finding the Prophet's Way →

• أَقْبَلَتْ تَطْعَمُنِي،

  She came forward and fed me.

  أَقْبَلَتْ — she came forward. A past-tense verb with the -at ending marking 'she' as the doer. It opens a pair of linked actions by the mother and, by sitting next to the following verb without a connector, sets up a 'she came forward and...' sequence where the second verb describes what she did on approaching.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• حَتَّى أَقْبَلَتْ كَتِيبَةٌ لَمْ يَرَ مِثْلَهَا،

  Until a company arrived unlike any he had ever seen,

  أَقْبَلَتْ — it arrived. A past-tense verb 'came forward / arrived' carrying the feminine '-at' ending, agreeing with the feminine 'company' that follows. Coming after 'until', it supplies the arrival the whole build-up was leading to.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →