بَشِّرِgive glad tidings

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ تَعَالَى وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

  And He, the Exalted, said, "And give glad tidings to the patient ones, those who, when a misfortune befalls them, say, 'Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.'"

  وَبَشِّرِ — and give glad tidings. wa- opens the quotation and the verb is a command ('give glad tidings!'), with the doer being the addressed prophet. The conjunction links the order into the quoted speech.

  From: Patience and God's Help →