أَجْلَسَseat

Example sentences

• قَالَ إِجْلِسْنِي إِلَى جَنْبِهِ فَأَجْلَسَاهُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَبِ بَكْرٍ

  He said, "Seat me beside him," so they seated him beside Abu Bakr.

  فَأَجْلَسَاهُ — so they seated him. A sequencing fa-, 'so', on a completed past verb shaped for a dual subject, 'the two of them seated', with an object pronoun 'him' attached. The dual is built into the verb itself, marking exactly two doers, plus the one seated.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• قَالَ فَأَجْلَسَنِي فِي قَاعٍ حَوْلَهُ حِجَارَةٌ

  He said, then he seated me in a hollow surrounded by stones.

  فَأَجْلَسَنِي — then he seated me. The fa- prefix marks sequence, 'then', on a make-someone-do verb, 'he made me sit / he seated me', with a 'me' object fused on. This is the causative shape, where the doer makes the action happen to the object, so it is richer than a plain 'sit'.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →