عَقَدَmake

Example sentences

• فإن انتفعت وعقدت مع الله عقدا ، فقد توسمت فيك الخير ،

  For if you benefit and make a covenant with God, then I have perceived goodness in you,

  وَعَقَدْتَ — and you have made. This is the bound wa- 'and' plus a past-tense verb 'and you made, you bound' with the attached -ta 'you'. The wa- coordinates a second condition with the first, both addressed to a single male; the doer is the suffix on the verb.

  From: True Devotion →

• كَانَ الْوَزِيرُ ابْنُ يُوْنُسِ الْحَنَبَلِيُّ قَدْ عَقَدَ مَجْلِسًا لِلرُّكْنِ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ ابْنِ عَبْدِ الْقَادِرِ الْجِيلِيِّ،

  The minister Ibn Yunus al-Hanbali had convened a session for al-Rukn Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jili,

  عَقَدَ — he convened. A past verb 'convened/held' carrying its own 'he' subject; the completion particle before it sharpens it to 'had convened'. It governs the following noun as the thing held.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →