تَأَمُّلreflect

Example sentences

• فليتأمل اللبيب هذا المثال حق التأمل،

  So let the intelligent one reflect on this example thoroughly,

  فَلْيَتَأَمَّلِ — so let him reflect. 'Fa-' plus the lam of command on a present-tense verb — this prefixed 'li-' turns a third-person verb into an order, 'let him reflect', and clips it to the jussive. Arabic has no separate 'let' word; the prefixed particle on the verb is the whole command.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• فليتأمل اللبيب هذا المثال حق التأمل،

  So let the intelligent one reflect on this example thoroughly,

  التَّأَمُّلِ — reflection. The verbal noun completing 'the full measure of reflection', genitive as the owner in the pairing. Together with the word before it, it forms the idiom 'reflect on it as it truly merits'.

  From: Repelling the Devil →