قلsay

Example sentences

• وَالْمُرْسِلُ يَقُولُ لِلرَّسُولِ قُلْ لَهُمْ كَذَا وَكَذَا،

  and the one who sends says to the messenger: 'Say to them such and such',

  قُلْ — Say. This is a command-form verb, 'say', addressed to the messenger. The imperative is Arabic's direct order shape, with the 'you' built into the form; it opens the quoted instruction the sender gives.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى ﴿قُلْ لِعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ﴾،

  as He, Exalted be He, said: 'Say to My servants who have believed to establish prayer',

  قُلْ — Say. This is a command form, 'Say!', addressed to one male listener (here the Prophet). Arabic shapes the imperative by stripping the present-tense verb back to a bare order; the 'you' being commanded is understood from the form alone, never written as a separate word.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• ﴿وَقُلْ لِعِبَادِي يَقُولُوا الَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ﴾،

  'Say to My servants to speak that which is best',

  وَقُلْ — Say. A linking 'and' is fused to the front of the command 'Say!'. The command itself is a bare order aimed at one male listener, with the 'you' understood from the form. The attached conjunction simply chains this instruction to the previous one.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• ﴿قُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ﴾، وَنَظَائِرُهُ

  'Say to the believers to lower their gaze', and similar passages.

  قُلْ — Say. A bare command, 'Say!', aimed at a single male listener, with the 'you' carried by the verb form alone. Arabic builds the order by trimming the present-tense verb down rather than adding any word for 'you'.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• فمن قل طعامه قل شربه،

  Whoever eats less, drinks less.

  قَلَّ — becomes less. A past-tense verb meaning 'becomes little', here read in the general present sense that the conditional 'whoever' gives it. It carries its own subject 'it/he' in the ending and heads the condition clause.

  From: Eating in Moderation →