أَشْهَدُI testify

Example sentences

• فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ ابْنُ صَيَّادٍ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ الأُمِّيِّينَ

  Then Ibn Sayyad looked at him and said, "I testify that you are the Messenger of the Unlettered."

  أَشْهَدُ — I testify. A present-tense verb, 'I testify', with 'I' built into its prefix; it states the speaker's own attestation and leads into its content clause.

  From: A Night with the Companions →

• فَنَادَى بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ،

  Then he cried out in his loudest voice, "I bear witness that there is no god but God."

  أَشْهَدُ — I bear witness. A first-person present verb that opens the formal testimony; the 'I' is carried inside its shape, no separate pronoun needed. It governs the clause after it, presenting what is sworn to as the content of the witnessing.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →

• قَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

  He said, "I bear witness that you are the Messenger of God."

  أَشْهَدُ — I bear witness. A present verb whose shape marks 'I' as the doer: 'I testify'. The first-person subject is folded into the word's prefix, so no separate 'I' is needed, and it heads the content the speaker affirms.

  From: What Was Created First →

• فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ،

  Then he said, "I bear witness that there is no god but God."

  أَشْهَدُ — I bear witness. A present verb whose shape marks 'I' as the doer, 'I testify', the first-person subject folded into the prefix. It heads the content the speaker affirms.

  From: What Was Created First →

• وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

  And I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God.

  وَأَشْهَدُ — and I testify. An 'and' on a present verb whose shape marks 'I' as the doer: 'and I testify'. The connector links this second testimony to the first, and the first-person subject is folded into the verb.

  From: What Was Created First →