صَفَّىpurifies

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانِ الْدَّارَانِيِ مَنْ صَفَّى، صُفِّيَ لَهُ، وَمَنْ كَدَرَ، كَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ،

  Abu Sulayman al-Darani said: Whoever purifies himself will be purified, and whoever becomes clouded will be clouded.

  صَفَّى — purifies himself. A past-tense 'he' verb on an intensive pattern meaning 'purified/made clear', with its subject built in and supplied by the 'whoever'. Inside the conditional its past shape reads as a general 'whoever purifies'. The doubled middle sound of the pattern carries the sense of thorough, deliberate cleansing.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →