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نُهِيَ prohibited in Arabic

نُهِيَ is how you say “prohibited” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَأما الْحزن فَلم يَأْمر الله بِهِ وَلَا رَسُوله بل قد نهى عَنهُ فِي مَوَاضِع

As for sadness, God did not command it, nor did His Messenger; rather, it has been prohibited in certain places.

نُهِيَ was prohibited

Passive verb, 'it was forbidden'. The passive form, made by reshaping the vowels inside the verb rather than adding a helper word, means sadness is the thing forbidden, with the forbidder left unnamed, exactly what English signals with 'was'.

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