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يَرُدُّ is driven back in Arabic

يَرُدُّ is how you say “is driven back” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَيَرُدُّ جَيْشُ الْهَوَى مَغْلُولًا

Then the army of desire is driven back, bound.

فَيَرُدُّ then is driven back

The fa- prefix means 'then/so', moving the narrative forward, and the verb itself is in its passive shape: the army is acted upon, driven back, rather than doing the driving. Arabic marks the passive by changing the internal vowels of the verb rather than adding a helper word like English 'is'.

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More example sentences

وَهُوَ الْفَقْرُ اللَّازِمُ فَيَرُدُّكَ عَنْ غِنَى الْكِفَايَةِ

And it is persistent poverty that turns you away from the wealth of sufficiency.

فَيَرُدُّكَ so it turns you away

Two pieces: fa- 'so', drawing the consequence, plus a present-tense verb 'turns you away' with a 'you' object fused on the end. The fa- ties the result to the persistent poverty just named, and the object 'you' rides inside the verb whose subject is that poverty.

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