Arabic vocabulary
عَصَمْنَا is how you say “may protect us” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
عَصَمْنَا اللَّهُ وَإِّيَّاكُمْ مِنْ فِتْنَتِهِ عِصْمَةٌ يُدْخِلُنَا بِهَا فِي رَحْمَتِهِ
May Allah protect us and you from His trials with a protection that brings us by it into His mercy.
عَصَمْنَا — may protect us. A past-tense verb of protecting with a 'us' object fused on its end. Though past in form, it is used here as a prayer-wish, 'may He protect us', a regular Arabic way to phrase a supplication with the perfect tense. Its subject, God, is named just after.
From: The Four Inner Guards →OpenArabic teaches words like عَصَمْنَا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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