شِئْتُI wished

Example sentences

• وَلَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أُزَيِّنَكُما مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ،

  And if I wished, I could adorn you both with the adornments of this world,

  شِئْتُ — I wished. This is a past-tense verb with the first-person 'I' built into its -tu ending, no separate pronoun needed. Under the 'if' particle it sits as the condition's verb, the wishing that the rest hangs on. The past shape here carries hypothetical force, the standard pattern after this kind of 'if'.

  From: Under God's Shield →