حَيِيَتْlive

Example sentences

• وعن الحسن قال إن هذه القلوب تحيى وتموت فإذا حييت فاحملوها على النافلة، وإذا ماتت فاحملوها على الفريضة

  Al-Hasan said, 'Indeed, these hearts live and die. When they are alive, push them toward extra acts of worship; and when they die, push them toward the obligatory acts.'

  حَيِيَتْ — they live. A past-tense verb here read as the condition 'they live/are alive'; after the 'when' particle Arabic often uses the past form to state the conditional case, and the -t marks the feminine subject 'hearts'.

  From: Reviving the Heart →