مُحْتَاجٌin need

Example sentences

• قَالَ إِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ، وَلِيَّ حَاجَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ

  He said, "I am in need, and I have dependents, and I have an urgent need."

  مُحْتَاجٌ — in need. An active participle, a doer-word, working here as a predicate adjective describing the speaker's state, 'in need'. There is no separate 'am' before it; Arabic joins this description straight to the 'I' of the emphatic particle.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• قَالَ دَعْنِي فَإِنِّي مُحْتَاجٌ، وَعَلَيَّ عِيَالٌ لَا أَعُودُ،

  He said, "Let me go; I am in need and have dependents. I will not return."

  مُحْتَاجٌ — in need. An active participle working as a predicate adjective for the speaker's state, 'in need'. There is no separate 'am'; Arabic joins this description straight to the 'I' carried by the emphatic particle before it.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَأَنَّهُ مُفْتَقِرٌ إِلَيْهِ مُحْتَاجٌ إِلَيْهِ

  And that he is in need of Him and dependent on Him.

  مُحْتَاج — in need. A second active participle, 'one who is dependent', restating the same idea in parallel with the first. As a participle it presents the dependence as a settled state and again takes a 'to...' phrase.

  From: What Worship Really Means →