وَجَدْتُI found

Example sentences

• فَوَجَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَجَدًّا شَدِيدًا،

  I felt an intense yearning for him,

  فَوَجَدْتُ — so I found. A connector fa- ('so') fused to the past verb 'I found/felt', with the first-person 'I' in its -tu ending. The fa- ties this reaction to the death just reported as its consequence. Connector, verb, and subject all sit in one written word.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• قَالَ فَذَهَبْتُ بِهِ فَوَجَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَمَعَهُ النَّاسُ،

  He said: So I took it to him and found the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, in the mosque with the people.

  فَوَجَدْتُ — so I found. The fa- chains his next act -- 'so I found' -- onto his going, '-tu' again marking 'I'. It shows finding the Prophet as the immediate next beat of his errand.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →

• فَوَجَدْتُهُ عَلَى بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ،

  So I found him at the door of the mosque.

  فَوَجَدْتُهُ — so I found him. The prefix fa- marks the next event ('so'), the -tu marks the doer 'I', and an attached -hu ('him') is the object, all on one verb. So 'so I found him' packs sequence, subject, and object into a single word.

  From: Marriage and Financial Justice →

• إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ فِيمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِ

  Indeed, I found in what Allah sent down to His prophets.

  وَجَدْتُ — I found. This is a past-tense verb with the subject ending '-I' built into it, so no separate pronoun is needed. It reports the speaker's act of finding, with what was found delivered by the following clause. The first-person ending is fused into the verb's shape.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →