عَلِمُواthey knew

Example sentences

• لِأَنَّهُمْ جَمِيعًا عَلِمُوا وَأَدْرَكُوا وَأَيَّقَنُوا أَنَّ مُعَلِّمَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

  Because they all knew, perceived, and were certain that their teacher was the Messenger of God.

  عَلِمُوا — they knew. A past-tense verb whose ending -u marks a third-person 'they' as the doers. Arabic carries the plural subject in that final vowel. It is the first of three coordinated verbs piling up the Companions' sure knowledge, here 'they knew'.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• وَكَانَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ قَدْ عَلِمُوا حُبَّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَائِشَةَ،

  And the Muslims already knew that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, loved Aisha.

  عَلِمُوا — they knew. A past-tense verb whose tail-ending marks 'they' (masculine plural), so the subject is carried inside the word. It reports the community's settled knowledge and heads into a possessive phrase naming what they knew.

  From: Wives of the Prophet →