إِنْطَلَقَset out in Arabic

Example sentences

• إِنْطَلَقَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ إِلَى النَّخْلِ

  After that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b set out toward the palm trees.

  انْطَلَقَ — set out. A past-tense verb 'set out' with its 'he' subject built in. It opens the scene and stands as the main verb; the people who set out are named after it, and a second name is coupled on later, so the single verb covers more than one departing party.

  From: A Night with the Companions →

• فَانْطَلَقَ يَقْفُوهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ،

  So he set out, and they followed him until he entered upon the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he entered with him.

  فَإِنْطَلَقَ — so he set out. Led by fa-, the tight connector chaining this departure onto the prior compliance. The past verb of the set-out pattern carries its own 'he' subject.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →