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تَوَفَّى pass away in Arabic

تَوَفَّى is how you say “pass away” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ثُمَّ لَمْ يَنْشَبْ وَرَقَةُ أَنْ تُوُفِّيَ،

Then it was not long before Waraqah died.

تُتَوَفَّى he died

This is the passive cast into the subjunctive after 'an': Waraqah is TAKEN (in death) rather than doing anything, and Arabic marks both the passive (inner vowels) and the post-'an' mood (reshaped ending) on the one verb. The agent, God taking the soul, is left unspoken.

From The Night of Revelation and Consolation

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