اِسْتَحْسَنَto deem good/appropriate

Example sentences

• وَتَسْأَلُهُ شَيْئًا لَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنْ أَمْرِ الدِّينِ لَمَا اِسْتَحْسَنَ السُّؤَالَ عَنْهُ؛

  And she asks him something that, if it were not a matter of religion, would not be appropriate to ask about.

  اِسْتَحْسَنَ — consider appropriate. A past-tense verb 'would deem proper' with its 'he' built in — a higher-pattern verb whose shape adds the sense of judging something good. It is the unreal consequence governed by the result-particle before it. Its subject is a general 'one', and it leads to the thing judged improper.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →