يَضِيعis lost

Example sentences

• العاشر أنه سبحانه نبه بقوله ﴿إِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ﴾ على أنه قد وكل عليه من يحفظ عليه عمله ويحصيه فلا يضيع منه شيء

  The tenth point is that He, glorified be He, emphasized by saying, ‘Indeed, every soul will have a guardian over it,’ indicating that He has appointed someone to safeguard and account for its deeds, and nothing will be lost from them.

  يَضِيعُ — will be lost. This present-tense verb carries its own subject and means 'gets lost' or 'is wasted', governed by the negation before it. Arabic needs no helper word for the denial; the single particle plus the verb gives 'nothing is lost'.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →