غَزَاfight

Example sentences

• والذي نفس محمد بيده لوددت أن أغزو في سبيل الله فأقتل،

  By the One in whose hand is Muhammad's soul, I would love to fight in the cause of Allah and be killed,

  أَغْزُوَ — I fight. A present-tense verb with the 'I' subject built in, sitting in the subjunctive ending required by the preceding 'that', so it reads as 'to fight'. The subjunctive shape marks it as the wished-for aim, not a fact; the speaker is inside the form.

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• ثم أغزو فأقتل ثم أغزو فأقتل

  then fight and be killed, then fight and be killed."

  أَغْزُوَ — I fight. A present-tense verb with the 'I' subject built in, in the subjunctive ending carried over from the earlier 'that', so it stays part of the wished-for sequence, 'to fight'. The subjunctive marks it as longed-for aim; the speaker is inside the form.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →

• ثم أغزو فأقتل ثم أغزو فأقتل

  then fight and be killed, then fight and be killed."

  أَغْزُوَ — I fight. A present-tense verb with the 'I' subject built in, again in the subjunctive ending carried by the earlier 'that', keeping the wished-for fighting going. The repeated subjunctive verb drives home the longed-for cycle.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →