أَنْزَلَ place in Arabic

وَأَنْزِلْهَا مَنْزِلَةَ مَنْ لَا حَاجَةَ لَهُ فِيهَا وَلا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا

Place it in the position of one who has no desire for it yet cannot do without it.

وَأَنْزِلْهَا and cause it to descend

'wa-' = 'and'; 'anzil' = a command 'bring down, place'; '-ha' = 'it', so 'and place it'.

From Faith as Light

وَبِهَا أرسل الرُّسُل وَأنزل الْكتب

And it was for this that He sent the messengers and revealed the books.

وَأَنْزَلَ and he revealed

The 'and' prefix joins a second action onto the first, both done by God. The verb is past tense with 'He' inside it, in a pattern that carries the sense of sending something down, here the revealing of scripture.

From Worship and Repentance

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مَا أَنْزَلَ،

Then Allah revealed what He revealed.

فَأَنْزَلَ then revealed

Here fa- is narrative 'then', moving to God's act of sending down, on a derived causative past verb ('caused to come down / revealed'). The prefix links this revealing to the events just before it as the next step in the account.

From Aisha Cleared of Slander

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مَا أَنْزَلَ،

Then Allah revealed what He revealed.

أَنْزَلَ he revealed

The same revealing verb repeated, third-person past with the subject 'He' understood from God just named. The echo is a deliberate device, 'revealed what He revealed', the second copy closing the relative clause that the open 'what' opened.

From Aisha Cleared of Slander

أَنْزَلُوا النُّصُوصَ مَنْزِلَةَ الْخَلِيفَةِ فِي هَذَا الزَّمَانِ،

They lowered the texts to the status of the caliph in this age.

أَنْزَلُوا they lowered

A past-tense verb in the causative pattern, 'they brought down / lowered', with the -u 'they' ending carrying the plural subject inside it. The pattern itself adds the 'cause to' sense, so the doers make the texts descend in rank. It opens the sentence as a completed act.

From Ignoring God's Guidance

الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ بِهِ رُسُلَهُ، وَأَنْزَلَ بِهِ كُتُبَهُ،

by which He sent His messengers and revealed His books.

وَأَنْزَلَ and revealed

Here wa- joins a second parallel act, 'and revealed', to 'sent', linking two things God did by the same means. It is the plain coordinating 'and' between matched verbs. The verb that follows is built on the same causative pattern.

From The Bridge to Paradise

إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ فِيمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِ

Indeed, I found in what Allah sent down to His prophets.

انْزِلْ sent down

This is a past-tense verb meaning 'sent down', third-person singular, with the divine subject named just after it. It sits inside the relative clause describing the scripture. The verb-then-subject order is the normal Arabic arrangement.

From On Reason and Temptation

وَأَنْزَلَهُ إِلَى دَارِ الْذُّلِّ وَالْهَوانِ وَالْبَلَاءِ وَالْاِمْتِحَانِ

And He sent him down to the abode of humiliation, abasement, affliction, and trial.

وَأَنْزَلَهُ and sent him down

This joins the linker 'wa-' to a past verb of sending-down that has '-hu' ('him') fused on as its object. The 'wa-' chains this onto the prior clause, the verb's 'he' subject (God) is built in, and the attached '-hu' (Adam) is what got sent down, all in one word.

From The Four Inner Guards