أُقْسِمُswear

Example sentences

• ومن ذلك قوله ﴿فَلا أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ وَمَا لا تُبْصِرُون إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ﴾ إلى آخرها

  And from that is His saying: 'I do not swear by what you see and what you do not see. Indeed, it is the word of a noble Messenger,' to the end of it.

  أُقْسِمُ — I swear. A present-tense verb 'I swear', with the 'I' subject built into the prefix of the verb. Arabic shows person through the verb's own shape, so no separate word for 'I' is needed.

  From: Proof in All Creation →

• وقال قتادة أقسم بالأشياء كلها بما يبصر منها ومالا يبصر

  Qatadah said: I swear by all things, what is seen of them and what is not seen.

  أُقْسِمُ — I swear. Present-tense 'I swear', the 'I' subject built into the verb's prefix. Arabic shows the speaker through the verb's shape, so no separate 'I' is written. It reports the oath in the scholar's paraphrase.

  From: Proof in All Creation →