Arabic vocabulary
يَتَّقِي is how you say “shelter himself” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَرَأَتْ أُمُّ ابْنِ صَيَّادٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يَتَّقِي بِجُذُوعِ النَّخْلِ
Then the mother of Ibn Sayyad saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was taking shelter by the trunks of the palm trees.
يَتَّقِي — was taking shelter. A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject inside the form. After the 'while he' opener it supplies the ongoing action of that side-scene, picturing what he was doing at the same time as the main event.
From: A Night with the Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like يَتَّقِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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