أَحَاطَto encompass

Example sentences

• وَقَوْلُهُمْ مَنْ جَهِلَ شَيْئًا عَادَاهُ، مَذْكُورٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى بَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُوا بِعِلْمِهِ وَإِذْ لَمْ يَهْتَدُوا بِهِ فَسَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا إِفْكٌ قَدِيمٌ

  And their saying: 'Whoever is ignorant of something, opposes it' is mentioned in His saying: 'But they denied that which they did not encompass in knowledge, and when they have not been guided by it, they will say: This is an ancient falsehood.'

  يُحِيطُوا — they encompass. Present-tense plural 'they encompass, grasp fully', clipped into the jussive because the negative 'did not' before it demands that shape, and the whole reads as a past 'they did not grasp'. The shortened ending is the grammatical mark of that negation. The plural doer is in the verb.

  From: When Scripture Answers Proverbs →

• وَلَا يُحِيطُ عِلْمًا بِفَهْمِ كِتَابِهِ أَيْضًا،

  Nor can he fully grasp the meaning of his book either.

  يُحِيطُ — fully encompass. A present-tense verb 'fully encompass / grasp completely', with a 'he' subject in its form. Negated by the preceding 'la', it says the person cannot fully take in the meaning; an internal-object noun and a 'with/in' phrase will specify what.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →