قَتَلkilled

Example sentences

• فيقول إن ربي قد غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإني قد قتلت نفساً لم أومر بقتلها، نفسي نفسي نفسي، اذهبوا إلى غيري،

  He will say: "My Lord has become angry today with an anger like none before or after. Indeed, I killed a person whom I was not commanded to kill. Myself, myself, myself! Go to someone else."

  قَتَلْتُ — I killed. A past verb with the '-tu' ending naming 'I' as the doer, the speaker's admission of having killed; the doer is marked by the ending, not a separate pronoun. It is the heart of his confession.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →

• فيقول إن ربي قد غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإني قد قتلت نفساً لم أومر بقتلها، نفسي نفسي نفسي، اذهبوا إلى غيري،

  He will say: "My Lord has become angry today with an anger like none before or after. Indeed, I killed a person whom I was not commanded to kill. Myself, myself, myself! Go to someone else."

  بِقَتْلِهَا — to kill. The prefix 'bi-' marks what he was (not) commanded about, the noun names the killing, and '-ha' ties it back to that slain person; the noun sits in the form the preposition governs. One word holds means, deed and referent.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →