يَقُولَsay

Example sentences

• قَالَ فَلَعَلِّي إِنْ عَدَلَتْ فِي قِسْمَتِهَا أَنْ يَقُولَ بَعْضٌ مِمَّنْ لَمْ يُرْزَقْ مِنْهَا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَعْدِلْ فِي قِسْمَتِهَا فَيَأْثَمُ أَرُوْهَا عَنِّي رَوَى اللَّهُ عَنكَ أَوْزَارُكَ

  He said, "So perhaps if she were just in dividing it, some of those who were not provided from it might say that he did not act fairly in dividing it, and so he sins. Keep it away from me. May God relieve you of your burdens."

  يَقُولَ — he might say. A present-tense verb whose 'ya-' prefix supplies a third-person 'he' subject, here pushed into its softened shape by the particle just before it. That shift is what tells the reader the saying is merely potential, the content of what 'some people might say', not a completed report.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →

• ثُمَّ قَالَ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَقُولَ

  Then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said what God willed him to say.

  يَقُولَ — he says. A present-shape verb pulled into its 'aim' (subjunctive) form by the preceding 'to/that', its '-a' ending the mark of that mood. It reads 'to say' -- the thing willed, framed as a goal rather than a fact.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →