خِرِتُI took pains

Example sentences

• وَقَدِيمًا خِرِتُ لَهُمْ فَإِنِّي لَأَذُودُهُمْ عَنْ نَعِيمِهَا وَرَخَائِهَا

  And long ago I took pains for them, so indeed I do ward them off from its pleasures and its comforts.

  خِرِتُ — I took pains. This is a past-tense verb with the first-person 'I' carried in its ending, no separate pronoun needed. The form is an older, less common one, but its job is plain: a completed past action by the speaker. The past shape sets this firmly in time before the present-tense claims that follow.

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