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شَغَلَ occupied in Arabic

شَغَلَ is how you say “occupied” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَدْ شَغَلَكَ نَيْلٌ لِذَاتِكَ عَنْ ذِكْرِ خَرَابِ ذَاتِكَ

And indeed, the attainment of your pleasures has occupied you from the remembrance of the ruin of your self.

شَغَلَكِ has occupied you

A past-tense verb carrying the object suffix -ki ('you', female) on its end, so it reads 'has occupied you'. Its subject, what does the occupying, follows it as a separate noun, since Arabic often puts the verb first and the doer after. The attached 'you' is the person distracted.

From Vigilance Against Worldly Deception

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