يَبْلُغُto reach

Example sentences

• مَا تبلغ الْأَعْدَاء من جَاهِل من يبلغ الْجَاهِل من نَفسه

  What enemies achieve against an ignorant person is not as much as what the ignorant person achieves against himself.

  يَبْلُغُ — achieves. A present-tense verb 'reaches / attains', its subject coming next — what the fool manages against himself. It mirrors the first verb.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• فَالْكِتَابُ يَبْلُغُ مَا لَا يَبْلُغُهُ الْخِطَابُ،

  So the book reaches what speech does not reach.

  يَبْلُغُ — it reaches. A present-tense verb with its 'it' subject built in, stating a general capacity — the book reaches things. It needs no helper word for the ongoing sense; the bare present form already carries 'does / can do'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• فيبصرهم الناظر، ويسمعهم الداعي، وتدنوا منهم الشمس، فيبلغ الناس من الغم والكرب ما لا يطيقون ولا يحتملون ،

  The onlooker will be able to see all of them, and the caller will be able to make all of them hear, and the sun will come near them, so the people will reach a level of distress and anxiety they cannot bear or endure.

  فَيَبْلُغُ — causing...to reach. The connector fa- 'so/then' fused to a present-tense verb. Fa- presents this as the consequence of the sun's nearness, and the verb carries its 'it/he' subject inside; the subject noun is named in the following word.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →