أَنْفَقَspend

Example sentences

• ملأوا مراكب الْقُلُوب مَتَاعا لَا تنْفق إِلَّا على الْملك

  They filled the vessels of hearts with goods that can only be spent on the King.

  تُنْفَقُ — be spent. A passive verb — the inner vowels make it 'is spent', with the feminine subject (the goods) and no spender named. Arabic marks the passive by the vowel pattern.

  From: Stages of the Seeker →

• وقال ﴿وَلا يَأْتُونَ الصَّلاةَ إِلَّا وَهُمْ كُسَالَى وَلا يُنْفِقُونَ إِلَّا وَهُمْ كَارِهُونَ﴾

  And He said, 'They do not approach prayer except lazily, and they do not spend except reluctantly.'

  يُنْفِقُونَ — they spend. This present-tense verb carries a built-in plural 'they' subject, 'they spend'. Under the negation before it, it means they do not spend; the plural doer is shown by the verb ending.

  From: Prayer and Charity →