Arabic vocabulary
اِشْفَعْ is how you say “intercede” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
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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