أَحَسَّto sense

Example sentences

• سمع ورأى ولا يقال أحس،

  He hears and sees, and it is not said that He senses.

  أَحَسَّ — senses. A past-tense verb with 'He' built in, standing as the content of what 'cannot be said', so 'that He sensed'. The denied verb means perceiving through bodily senses, ruled out to keep His perception above the physical.

  From: God's Attributes →

• فَلَمَّا أَحَسَّ بِهَمْسِ قَدَمِيِ،

  So when he felt the light brush of my foot,

  أَحَسَّ — he felt. A past-tense verb carrying its own 'he' subject within the form, standing as the verb of the 'when' clause opened before it. It reports the sensing on which the following reaction depends, the doer built into the verb rather than named apart.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →