يَحْتَمِلendure

Example sentences

• فيبصرهم الناظر، ويسمعهم الداعي، وتدنوا منهم الشمس، فيبلغ الناس من الغم والكرب ما لا يطيقون ولا يحتملون ،

  The onlooker will be able to see all of them, and the caller will be able to make all of them hear, and the sun will come near them, so the people will reach a level of distress and anxiety they cannot bear or endure.

  يَحْتَمِلُونَ — they endure. A present-tense verb with the 'they' ending inside it, again under the negation before it, so it means 'they cannot tolerate'. Pairing it with the earlier near-synonym verb is a doubling that strengthens the sense of utter unbearableness.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →