وَلَيْتُI turned away

Example sentences

• فَوَلَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَثَلِ مَا وَلَيْتُ

  So I turned away from her, just as I had turned.

  فَوَلَيْتُ — so I turned away. The front fa- gives a 'so / and so' linking force, and the verb under it is a completed-action 'I turned away' with the 'I' subject built in. It reports Umar's own past failing in parallel to the scene before him. So the word both links and confesses his earlier neglect.

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• فَوَلَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَثَلِ مَا وَلَيْتُ

  So I turned away from her, just as I had turned.

  وَلَيْتُ — I had turned. This is a completed-action verb with the 'I' subject built in, mirroring the earlier 'turned away' to complete the comparison. It fills the relative clause 'what I had turned'. So it closes the parallel: he now leaves her as he once left her, the point of his remorse.

  From: Honoring Parents →