قلتsaid

Example sentences

• فَيَقُولُ قُلْتُ كَذَا وَكَذَا،

  so he says: 'I said such and such',

  قُلْتُ — I said. This is a past-tense verb carrying a built-in first-person 'I' subject, 'I said'. The doer is shown by the verb ending; it opens the messenger's report of what he conveyed.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• وَقُلْتُ لَهُ مَا أَمَرْتَنِي أَنْ أَقُولَهُ،

  and I said to him what you commanded me to say to him,

  وَقُلْتُ — and I said. The wa- opens the sentence, fused to a past-tense verb with a built-in 'I' subject, 'and I said'. The connector ties this to the prior report, and the first-person ending names the speaker as the doer.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• كَمَا قَالَ الْمَسِيحُ ﴿مَا قُلْتُ لَهُمْ إِلَّا مَا أَمَرْتَنِي بِه﴾،

  as the Messiah said: 'I said nothing to them except what You commanded me with',

  قُلْتُ — I said. This is a past-tense verb carrying a built-in 'I' subject, 'I said'. Under the negation before it the sense is 'I did not say'; the first-person ending names the speaker, the Messiah.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →