عَمِلَ perform in Arabic

وَإِن عمل حَسَنَة رَآهَا من منّته وصدقته عَلَيْهِ،

And if he performs a good deed, he sees it as from His favor and charity upon him,

عَمِلَ he performs

Past-tense verb 'did, performed', 'he' form.

From Returning to God

وَإِن عمل سيّئة رَآهَا من تخلّيه عَنهُ وخذلانه لَهُ،

And if he commits a bad deed, he sees it as resulting from His abandonment of him and His forsaking him,

عَمِلَ he performs

Past-tense verb 'did, performed', 'he' form.

From Returning to God

وَكَانَ يعْمل لَهُ

And he worked for him

يَعْمَلُ he works

Present-tense verb 'ya'mal' = 'he works'; with 'kana' before it: 'he used to work'.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

وَعَمِلَ بِمُقْتَضَى مَصَالِحِهَا

And it acted according to its benefits.

وَعَمِلَ and it acted

'wa-' = 'and'; past-tense verb, subject 'it' built in.

From Intellect and Faith

فعملوا على اللِّقَاء

So they worked towards the meeting.

فَعَمِلُوا so they worked

'Fa-' (so) plus a past-tense verb 'worked / acted' with the plural '-u' (they) ending — the lovers' response. The 'fa-' threads the consequence.

From Overcoming Desire

وقالت ملائكة العذاب إنه لم يعمل خيرا قط،

The Angels of Punishment said, 'He has never done any good.'

يَعْمَلْ done

This present-tense verb is clipped into the jussive by 'lam' and reads as a past negative — 'did not do'. The shortened ending is the sign the negator acted. Its object follows.

From Righteous Company

وَقَالَ يَقُولُ اللهُ مَنْ عَمِلَ عَمَلًا أَشْرَكَ مَعِي فِيهِ غَيْرِي فَهُوَ لِلَّذِي أَشْرَكَ وَأَنَا مِنْهُ بَرِيءٌ

And he said: 'Allah says: Whoever does a deed in which he associates someone else with Me, it is for the one he associated, and I am free from it.'

عَمِلَ does

A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in, serving as the condition's act, 'does a deed'. In such conditional frames the past form carries a general, timeless sense.

From The Hidden Idolatry

وَعَمِلَ فِيهِ خَيْرًا

And he did good in it.

وَعَمِلَ and he acted

The connector wa- stitches this clause to the running account, on a past verb of doing/acting whose 'he' subject is built in. The wa- here simply adds the next thing he did rather than marking a sharp time-step.

From Paradise for the Sincere

إن أول الناس يقضى يوم القيامة عليه رجل اسُتشهد، فأتي به، فعرفه نعمته، فعرفها، قال فما عملت فيها؟

Indeed, the first of the people to be judged on the Day of Resurrection will be a man who was martyred. He will be brought, and Allah will make him recognize His blessings, and he will recognize them, and He will say: 'What did you do with them?'

عَمِلْتَ did you do

This is a past-tense verb with 'you' in the ending, 'you did', addressed straight to the man. It asks about his completed conduct, and it governs the following 'with them' as the sphere of that conduct.

From Intentions on Judgment Day

ورجل تعلم العلم وعلمه، وقرأ القرآن، فأتي به، فعرفه نعمه فعرفها قال فما عملت فيها؟

And a man who learned knowledge and taught it, and read the Quran. He will be brought, and Allah will make him recognize His blessings, and he will recognize them. He will say: 'What did you do with them?'

عَمِلْتَ did you do

This is a past-tense verb with 'you' in the ending, 'you did', addressed straight to the man. It asks about his completed conduct and governs the following 'with them' as the field of that conduct.

From Intentions on Judgment Day

ورجل وسع الله عليه، وأعطاه من أصناف المال، فأتي به فعرفه نعمه، فعرفها قال فما عملت فيها ؟

And a man whom Allah made wealthy and to whom He gave all kinds of wealth. He will be brought, and Allah will make him recognize His blessings, and he will recognize them. He will say: 'What did you do with them?'

عَمِلْتَ did you do

A past-tense verb carrying a built-in 'you' (masculine singular) as its subject - the -ta ending is the doer, so no separate pronoun is needed. It is the verb the fronted question word 'what' is asking about, making 'what did you do'. The shift to direct second-person address turns the narrative into a face-to-face challenge.

From Intentions on Judgment Day

وَمَنْ يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ مُهَانًا إِلَّا مَنْ تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا

And whoever does that will incur sins; the punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide in it abased, except for whoever repented and believed and did a righteous deed.

وَعَمِلَ and he did

This fronts wa- 'and' onto a past-tense verb 'did/worked', the third condition of the exception. The wa- adds it to 'repented' and 'believed'. The 'he' subject is inside the verb, and it governs the object 'a deed' that follows.

From The Gravity of Murder