أَمَرَنِيhe commanded me

Example sentences

• وَجَعَلْتُ أَبْثُ ذَلِكَ الْحَدِيثَ الَّذِي أَمَرَنِي بِهِ

  And I began to relate that hadith which he had commanded me to relate.

  أَمرنِي — he commanded me. This is a past-tense verb with a 'me' object-pronoun glued to its end, so one word means 'he commanded me'. The unspoken 'he' doer is the Prophet, and the suffix marks the narrator as the one ordered. It begins the clause describing what was commanded.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• وَقَدْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُفَارِقَكَ الْحَقَّ بِأَهْلِكَ

  And he has ordered me to separate you from the truth with your family.

  أَمَرَنِي — ordered me. This is a past-tense verb of ordering with -ni, the 'me' object, fused to its end, so one word means 'ordered me'. The singular 'he' subject (the father) is built into the verb. So one word holds the verb, the subject, and the object pronoun.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →