نَافَقَhypocrite

Example sentences

• قلت نافق حنظلة؟

  I said: 'Hanzala has become a hypocrite?'

  نَافَقَ — has become a hypocrite. A Form III verb 'turned hypocrite / acted with a divided heart', past. The Form III pattern (a long vowel after the first root letter) often carries a sustained or interactive sense. Its subject comes next. Hanzala accuses himself, speaking of himself in the third person.

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• فقلت نافق حنظلة يا رسول الله فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وما ذاك؟

  I said: 'Hanzala has become a hypocrite, O Messenger of Allah!' So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'And what is that?'

  نَافَقَ — has become a hypocrite. Form III verb 'turned hypocrite', past — Hanzala again accusing himself in the third person. Its subject follows. The Form III shape (long vowel after the first root letter) frames it.

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