يَزَالُpersist

Example sentences

• فَلَا يزَال بك حَتَّى يخْرجك من الْمَسْجِد

  He persists with you until he drives you out of the mosque.

  يَزَالُ — persists. A present-tense verb 'ceases', which paired with the preceding 'la' means its opposite — 'does not cease / keeps on'. 'la yazalu' is a fixed way to say 'he goes on [doing]'.

  From: The Path to God's Love →

• وَلَا يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَكْذِبُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الْكَذِبَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ كَذَّابًا

  And a man continues to lie and to seek falsehood until he is recorded with God as a liar.

  يَزَالُ — he continues to. A verb 'ceases' which, once negated, means 'keeps on / continues'. The 'does not cease' frame is how Arabic expresses ongoing persistence, so it yields 'he continues to' rather than a stop.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• فَلَا يَزَالُ يَخْرُجُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ جُيُوشِهِمْ كَمِينٌ بَعْدَ كَمِينٍ،

  So their armies continue to send out ambush after ambush against it,

  يَزَالُ — continues to. This present-tense verb belongs to a special family that means 'keeps on / does not cease'; it needs the negation before it and a following verb to complete the sense. Rather than describing one action, it stretches whatever verb comes next into a continuous, repeated happening.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →

• وَلَا يَزَالُونَ يَتَنَاوَبُونَ آيَاتًا مِنْ سُوَرٍ مُخْتَلِفَاتٍ إِلَى أَنْ يَتَكَامَلُوا قِرَاءَةً،

  And they continue taking turns reciting verses from different chapters until their recitation is complete.

  يَزَالُونَ — they continue. A present-tense verb of the 'cease/stop' family, used with the preceding negation to mean 'they do not stop = they keep on'. The plural ending carries the 'they' subject. It expects a following verb naming what they keep doing, building an ongoing-action frame.

  From: Public Preaching →