وَقَفَstood

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا وقف الْقَوْم على رؤوسهم

  When the people stood over them.

  وَقَفَ — they stood. A past-tense verb 'stood / halted', its subject coming next. The hunters coming to a stop.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فالأصولي الواقف مع الظواهر والآثار عند خصومه يجعلونه مجسما وحشويا ومبتدعا،

  So the fundamentalist who stands with the apparent meanings and narrations, his opponents deem him an anthropomorphist, a Hashwi, and an innovator.

  الوَاقِفُ — who adheres. This is an active participle, 'the one standing', a verb-derived noun naming the doer, agreeing with its noun in nominative and definiteness. It works like an English '-er/-ing' word and describes the scholar as one who holds to a position.

  From: Unity Over Partisanship →

• فَوَقَفَ وَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ،

  Then he stopped and replied to him.

  فَوَقَفَ — then he stopped. The fa- here is narrative sequence, 'and then', taking the story to the man's reaction. It marks the next beat rather than plain 'and'. The verb it carries is a completed-action verb 'he stopped', with its 'he' subject inside.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →

• فَمَنْ وَقَفَ عِنْدَ هَذِهِ الْحَقِيقَةِ وَعِنْدَ أَشْهَادِهَا

  So whoever pauses at this truth and at its witnesses.

  وَقْفٌ — pauses at. A verb meaning 'pauses/stops at', here the act that defines the conditional 'whoever'. It carries its own 'he' subject and sets the condition that the following place-phrases attach to.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• فَوَقَفَ سُلَيْمَانُ

  Then Sulaiman stopped.

  فَوَقَفَ — then he stopped. A 'then' is fused to a past-tense verb whose 'he' subject is built in. The 'then' marks the stopping as the king's response to what he heard. The named subject then follows the verb in the usual order.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →