يُعَذِّبَpunish

Example sentences

• إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُعَذِّبَ عَبْدًا بِمَالِهِ وَفِقِهِ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ لِوَصِيَّةٍ جَائِرَةٍ

  Indeed, when God intends to punish a servant because of his wealth and his understanding, He causes him, at his death, to make an unjust will.

  يُعَذِّبَ — punish. A present-tense verb of the doubled-intensive pattern, pushed into the subjunctive by the 'to' particle before it. The changed ending marks the punishing as the intended outcome, and the intensive stem sharpens the sense.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →