يَغْلِبَprevail

Example sentences

• وَلَيْسَ الْعَجَبُ أَنْ يَغْلِبَ، إِنَّمَا الْعَجَبُ أَنْ يُغْلَبَ

  It is not surprising that one should prevail; what is surprising is that one should be overcome.

  يَغْلِبَ — one should prevail. A present verb pushed into its subjunctive shape by the 'that' before it; the changed ending is how you know it is governed by that particle. It is active voice (the subject doing the prevailing) and has a general, unnamed subject: 'that one prevail'.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →