هَمَمَintend

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا هَمَمْتَ بِصَدَقَةٍ فَبَادِرْ إِلَيْهَا

  And if you intend to give charity, hasten to do it.

  هَمَمْتَ — you intended. A past-tense verb, 'you intended', with its 'you' subject built in. Though past in form, inside an 'if/when' clause it reads as a present condition, 'if you intend'. Arabic regularly uses the perfect this way for the supposed case in a condition.

  From: Charity and Stinginess →