يُبْصَرُseen

Example sentences

• وقال قتادة أقسم بالأشياء كلها بما يبصر منها ومالا يبصر

  Qatadah said: I swear by all things, what is seen of them and what is not seen.

  يُبْصَرُ — is seen. A passive present-tense verb 'is seen', with no named seer; something is perceived by an unstated agent. Arabic builds the passive by changing the internal vowels, not by adding a helper word, so the action is received rather than performed by a stated subject.

  From: Proof in All Creation →

• وقال قتادة أقسم بالأشياء كلها بما يبصر منها ومالا يبصر

  Qatadah said: I swear by all things, what is seen of them and what is not seen.

  يُبْصَرُ — is seen. The same passive 'is seen' as before, now under negation, 'is not seen'. The repeated passive balances the unseen against the seen, with the doer of seeing left unstated throughout.

  From: Proof in All Creation →