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Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا فارقا بيوت مَكَّة اشْتَدَّ الحذر بالصدّيق

  When they left the houses of Mecca, caution intensified for the Truthful One.

  فَارَقَا — they two left. A past-tense engage-with (form III) verb 'parted from' with the dual '-a' ending carrying 'they two' — the Prophet and Abu Bakr. This is the dual: the ending itself says 'exactly two did it', where English needs 'they two'.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فَإِذَا فَارَقَهُنَّ وَصَاحَبَ فُحُولَ الرِّجَالِ زَالَتْ عَنْهُ،

  So when he left them and kept company with virile men, it ceased from him.

  فَارَقَهُنَّ — he left them. A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in and an attached 'them' as its object, the feminine plural pointing back to the women. So one word holds doer and the parted-from party. Both ride inside the single form.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →