أُيِّدsupport

Example sentences

• وَلَا أُيِّدُوا وَنُصِرُوا وَلَا ظَهَرَتْ عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمُ الْآيَاتُ، وَلَا صَدَّقَهُمُ الرَّبُّ تَعَالَى بِإِقْرَارِهِ وَلَا بِفِعْلِهِ وَلَا بِقَوْلِهِ

  They were neither supported nor aided, nor did signs appear by their hands, nor did the Lord, Exalted be He, affirm them by His acknowledgment, action, or speech.

  أُيِّدُوا — they were supported. This is a past-tense passive verb in the doubled-middle pattern, 'they were strengthened', with a built-in plural subject. The passive means they received support rather than gave it; Arabic marks this by the inner vowels, with the helper-doer unstated.

  From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →