قُدِرَhave been decreed in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَمَا قُدِرَ مِنَ الْمُصِيبَاتِ يَجِبُ الاِسْتِسْلَامُ لَهُ

  One must accept whatever calamities have been decreed.

  قُدِرَ — have been decreed. A passive past verb 'has been decreed' — the calamities receive the decreeing; an unnamed decreer does it. Arabic builds this passive by reshaping the verb's internal vowels rather than adding 'is/was', so it looks close to its active twin but flips the roles.

  From: Patience Under Decree →

• فَإِنَّهُ إِنْ قُدِرَ لَكَ السَّلَامَةُ تَسْلَمُ

  So if safety is decreed for you, you will be safe.

  قُدِّرَ — is decreed. A passive past verb: its inner vowels are shaped so the deciding is received, not done by a named decider, which is why English says 'is decreed'. Sitting inside the 'if' clause, it makes the whole supposition about something happening to the person rather than something they do.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →