Arabic vocabulary
How to say “intercede” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَقُلْ يُسْمَعْ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَهْ، وَاِشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ
Say, and it will be heard; ask, and you will be given; intercede, and you will be granted intercession.
وَاِشْفَعْ — and intercede. Opens with the linking wa- and continues with a command to one person, 'intercede', the third of the matched command-and-result pairs. The opening vowel is a starter for the consonant cluster. It sets up the final conditional-like structure with the result-verb that follows.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →ثُمَّ يُقَالُ اِرْفَعْ مُحَمَّدُ، قُلْ يُسْمَعُ، وَسَلْ تُعْطَى، وَاشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعُ،
Then it will be said: Raise Muhammad. Say: He is heard. And ask, and you will be given. And intercede, and intercession will be granted.
وَاشْفَعْ — and intercede. The wa- adds the next 'and' to the imperative chain, paired with a one-person command, intercede. The connector keeps the series of instructions to the speaker moving forward.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →وكلمت الناس في المهد ، اشفع لنا إلى ربك، ألا ترى ما نحن فيه؟
And you spoke to the people in the cradle, "Intercede with your Lord for us; do you not see what we are in?"
اِشْفَعْ — Intercede. A bare singular command, the imperative shape carrying its own 'you (do it)', asking the addressee to intercede. It pivots from the praise into the request.
From: The Prophet's Intercession →اشفع لنا إلى ربك، ألا ترى ما نحن فيه؟
Intercede with your Lord for us; do you not see what we are in?
اِشْفَعْ — intercede. A bare singular command, the imperative shape carrying its own 'you (do it)', asking the addressee to intercede. It opens the request directly.
From: The Prophet's Intercession →OpenArabic teaches words like اِشْفَعْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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