عَادَىto oppose

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.'

  عَادَاهُ — opposes him/it. This is a past verb 'he opposed, became hostile to' with the attached 'it' as object, pointing back to the thing not known. The 'he' doer is inside the verb. It is the result half of the conditional: not knowing it, he turns against it. The suffix tracks the earlier 'thing'.

  From: When Scripture Answers Proverbs →

• أيعلم جاحد القرآن أنه قد عادى من أهلك عادًا وثَمُودًا وأصحابُ الرَسِّ

  Does the denier of the Quran know that he has opposed the One who destroyed Aad and Thamud and the companions of the well?

  عَادَى — he opposed. A past-tense verb with the doer 'he' built in, of the pattern used for mutual hostility, so it reaches its object 'the One who...' directly without a word for 'against'. The completed past frames the opposing as already done.

  From: God's Attributes →