تكلم to speak in Arabic
تكلم is how you say “to speak” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ قَدْ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَقَدْ أَنْكَرَ حَقِيقَةَ الرِّسَالَةِ
So whoever denies that God has spoken the Quran has indeed denied the reality of the message.
تَكَلَّمَ spoken
This verb is built on a doubled, intensive pattern that frames speaking as a deliberate, full act of speech. It is the completed-action form, reporting the speaking as a settled fact, and it follows its subject-name rather than leading it. The pattern itself, not a helper word, signals that this is engaged, real speaking.
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وَلَا يَجِيءُ فِي شَيْءٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ تَكَلَّمَ لَهُمْ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا،
And it is not fitting in any of that to say: 'He spoke to them with such and such',
تَكَلَّمَ to say
A past-tense verb 'he spoke', built on a reflexive pattern where the action is done by and stays with the doer, fitting a verb about producing speech. The 'he' subject is inside the form. Here it is cited as the wording one would wrongly use.
وَلَا تَكَلَّمَ الرَّسُولُ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا،
Nor did the Messenger speak with such and such,
تَكَلَّمَ did speak
Past-tense verb 'he spoke', on a reflexive pattern suited to producing speech, with the 'he' subject built in. Coming after the negator, it states that this act of speaking did not occur.