فَدَعَاprayed

Example sentences

• فَدَعَا عَلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَارْتَطَمَتْ بِهِ فَرَسُهُ إِلَى بَطْنِهَا

  Then the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, prayed against him, and his mare struck him in the belly.

  فَدَعَا — then prayed. The fa- on the front is a 'next thing that happened' link, tying this prayer to the events just before it; it is tighter than a plain 'and', signalling consequence. The verb itself is a plain past, 'he prayed/called', with the doer ('the Prophet') named a few words later rather than carried inside the verb.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →

• قَالَ فَدَعَا أَصْغَرَ بُنَيِّهِ

  He said, then he called his youngest son.

  فَدَعَا — then he called. Past-tense verb of calling with consecutive fa- ('then'), the doer 'he' held inside. The fa- sequences this summons right after the speech, one beat following another.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →