فَأَكَلْتُso I ate

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ الآخَرُ لَكِنِّي مَعَ رَجُلٍ إِنْ أَكَلَ لَمْ يَسْمِ اللَّهَ فَأَكَلْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ جَمِيعًا

  The other said, 'But I am with a man; if he eats without saying the name of God, then I and he eat together.'

  فَأَكْلٍ — so I ate. The 'fa-' opens the result of the condition ('then'), and the rest is a first-person past 'I ate / I eat'. It marks the consequence half of the if-then, the permitted outcome.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →