جَلَسْتُI sat

Example sentences

• حَتَّى دَخَلَ بِئْرَ أَرِيسِ، فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ،

  Until he entered the well of Aris, and I sat by the door.

  فَجَلَسْتُ — and I sat. The fa- on the front is a tight 'and so' link, ordering this action immediately after the one before with a sense of consequence. The verb itself is a past 'sat' whose ending already carries the first-person 'I', so the doer is folded into the word rather than written as a separate pronoun.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →

• فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ، فَقُلْتُ لَأَكُونَنَّ بَوَّابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْيَوْمَ،

  So I sat by the door and said, "Let me be the doorkeeper of the Messenger of God today, may God bless him and grant him peace."

  فَجَلَسْتُ — so I sat. The fa- on the front is a tight 'and so' link, ordering this action immediately after the one before with a sense of consequence. The verb itself is a past 'sat' whose ending already carries the first-person 'I', so the doer is folded into the word rather than written as a separate pronoun.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →