مَضَىpassed

Example sentences

• عمرك وَهُوَ وقتك الْحَاضِر بَين مَا مضى وَمَا يسْتَقْبل

  Your life is your present time between what has passed and what is to come.

  مَضَى — has passed. A past verb, 'went by', from a root whose final weak letter surfaces as a long 'aa'. Its subject 'it' is built in, and with the relative before it forms 'that which has passed'.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →

• فَالَّذِي مضى تصلحه بِالتَّوْبَةِ والندم وَالِاسْتِغْفَار

  So what has passed can be corrected by repentance, remorse, and seeking forgiveness.

  مَضَى — has passed. The past verb 'went by' again, closing 'that which has passed'. The relative supplies the 'which', and the bare verb, subject built in, supplies the rest.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →

• فَمَا مضى تصلحه بِالتَّوْبَةِ

  So what has passed, you correct through repentance.

  مَضَى — has passed. The past verb 'went by', subject inside, completing 'what has passed'. The weak final root-letter shows as the long 'aa' that ends the word.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →

• فَإِنْ مَضَيْتُ فَاتَّبِعْنِي حَتَّى تَدْخُلَ مَدْخَلِي فَفَعَلَ،

  If I leave, then follow me until you enter my entrance. So he did.

  مَضَيْتُ — I left. A past verb with its 'I' subject built into the ending, 'I left/went on'. Inside the conditional it carries an 'if I go ahead' sense rather than a flat past.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →

• فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَعْزِمُ بِلاَ تَرَدُّدٍ، وَيَمْضِي مِنْ غَيْرِ التَّفَاتِ،

  Some of them decide without hesitation and go on without looking back.

  وَيَمْضِي — and goes on. This joins the linking 'and' to a present-tense verb carrying its own subject, chaining a second habit to the first: 'and goes on'. The two verbs describe the same decisive type.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

• كَأَنَّكَ لَمْ تَسْمَعْ أَخْبَارًا مِنْ مَضَى

  It is as if you had not heard news of those who have passed.

  مَضَى — those who have passed. Built on a past-tense verb meaning 'has passed', this word is used here as a stand-in for 'those who have gone before', the dead of earlier generations. Governed by the preposition, it names the people the news is about, turning a verb into a label for a whole class.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →