اِسْتَغْنَىhas become wealthy

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا بَلَغَكَ أَنْ فَقِيرًا اِسْتَغْنَى فَصَدِّقْ،

  And if it reaches you that a poor man has become wealthy, then believe it.

  اِسْتَغْنَى — has become wealthy. A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in, forming the claim of the reported clause: that the poor man came into wealth. It is the predicate the 'that' particle was setting up. Person and tense ride inside the verb shape.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →