يَتَحَاسَدُونَthey compete over

Example sentences

• وَلَقَدْ بُشِّرَ الصَّابِرُونَ بِثَلَاثٍ كُلُّ مِنْهَا خَيْرٌ مِمَّا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا يَتَحَاسَدُونَ

  And indeed the patient ones were given glad tidings of three things, each of which is better than what the people of the world compete over.

  يَتَحَاسَدُونَ — they compete over. A present-tense verb of a mutual/reciprocal pattern with 'they' built in, describing people envying one another. The reciprocal shape signals the action runs back and forth between them, not one-directional.

  From: Patience and God's Help →