أَشْهَدُكَI testify to you

Example sentences

• قَالَتْ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَشْهَدُكَ وَأَشْهَدُ رَسُولَكَ أَنِّي قَدْ رَضِيتُ عَنْ إِبْنِي

  She said, "O Allah, I testify to You and to Your Messenger that I am satisfied with my son."

  أَشْهَدُكَ — I testify to you. This is a present-shape verb with the 'I' subject built into its front, and the -ka 'you' glued onto its end as the one being called to witness. So a single word holds subject, verb, and object together. The present form here carries the force of a here-and-now performative act: by saying it, the speaker is doing the witnessing.

  From: A Mother's Forgiveness →