أَعْرِفُI can tell

Example sentences

• أَعْرِفُ فِيهِ الْجُوعَ، فَهَلْ عِنْدَكِ مِنْ شَيْءٍ

  I can tell he is hungry. Do you have anything?

  أَعْرِفُ — I can tell. A present-shape verb with 'I' in its prefix -- 'I recognize/can tell'. The present frames it as a current perception, Abu Talhah reading the hunger in the Prophet's voice as he speaks.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →

• وَكَانَ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ يَقُولُ إِنِّي لَأَعْصِيَ اللَّهَ، فَأَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَلْقِ دَابَّتِي وَجَارِيَتِي

  Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad used to say: I do disobey God, and I perceive that in the nature of my mount and my female servant.

  فَأَعْرِفُ — so I perceive. A 'fa-' fused to a first-person present verb, 'so I perceive'. The 'fa-' here marks consequence, 'and as a result', tying the perceiving to the disobedience just confessed: the sin shows up in its effects. The verb's 'I' subject is built into its form, and it governs the 'that' pointed at next.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →