حَتَّىuntil

Example sentences

• انطلق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه حتى سبقوا المشركين إلى بدر وجاء المشركون،

  The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and his companions set out until they reached Badr before the polytheists, and the polytheists came.

  حَتَّى — until. This particle 'until' marks the end-point of the setting-out, 'until they outran...'. Here it introduces a completed result rather than a goal, so the verb after it stays in its plain past; its job is to mark where the journey reached.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

• حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَوْا مِنْهَا وَاسْتَنْشَقُوا رَائِحَتَهَا وَنَظَرُوا إِلَى قُصُورِهَا وَإِلَى مَا أَعَدَّ اللهُ لِأَهْلِهَا فِيهَا،

  until they come close to it, inhale its fragrance, and see its palaces and what Allah has prepared for its inhabitants in it,

  حَتَّى — until. A particle, 'until / to the point that', opening a clause that names the stage the action runs up to. It links the earlier movement to the moment described next, marking its end-point.

  From: Turned Away at the Gate →

• تَأْمُرُ بِهِ حَتَّى يَسْأَلَ مِنْ عِنْدَهَا

  She instructs him about it until he asks from her.

  حَتَّى — until. This particle means 'until, up to the point that', and it does grammatical work beyond its gloss: it marks the end-point a process runs toward and pushes the verb after it into the subjunctive, the form for an aimed-at result. So it reframes the next verb as the goal her directing was leading up to.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• فَإِذَا كَانَ الشِّتَاءُ جَاءَ حَتَّى قَعَدَ خَلْفِي وَأَنَا أُصَلِّي،

  When winter came, he would come until he sat behind me while I prayed.

  حَتَّى — until. A particle marking the far end of a stretch, 'up to the point that'. Its job is to take the action before it and extend it toward a limit, here the sitting-down that follows. It links two events by saying the first continued until the second happened, so it sets a boundary on the earlier verb rather than simply meaning 'until' on its own.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• فَمَلأَهُ بِالْمَاءِ وَأَدْنَاهُ مِنَ الْمِصْبَاحِ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ قَائِمًا وَهُوَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ

  So he filled it with water and placed it nearer to the lamp, and he did not cease standing while it was in his hand until morning came.

  حَتَّى — until. This is the limit-marking 'until', a connector that names the endpoint where an ongoing action stops. It tells you how long the standing lasted: right up to the moment named next. Arabic uses this word to cap a continuous action with the boundary that ends it.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →

• فَقَالَ لِي اِجْلِسْ هَا هُنَا حَتَّى أَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكَ

  He said to me, "Sit here until I return to you."

  حَتَّى — until. A subordinating word, 'until', that here marks the goal/limit a person waits up to. Its grammatical job is to push the verb after it into the subjunctive, signalling that the returning is the aim being awaited, not yet a done thing.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →

• فَانْطَلَقَ حَتَّى إِذَا نَصَفَ الطَّرِيقَ

  Then he set out and continued until he reached the middle of the road.

  حَتَّى — until. This is a particle that sets a limit or goal: it tells you the action before it kept going up to a boundary, and the clause after it names where that boundary is. Think of it as building a 'kept on... until' frame, so the listener expects an endpoint to follow.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →

• فَارْتَقَى بِي الْحَالَ حَتَّى صَارَ إِبْلِيسُ مِنْ جُنْدِيَّ

  My condition rose so high that Iblis became one of my soldiers.

  حَتَّى — until. This particle means 'until / to the point that' and introduces a result clause. It is one of the words that can shape the verb after it, and here its job is to mark what the rising led to, linking cause to outcome.

  From: Three States of the Heart →

• حَتَّى يَدْخُلُ فِي النَّوْعِ الثَّانِيِّ مِنْ مَعْنَى الْعَبْدِ وَهُوَ الْعَبْدُ بِمَعْنَى الْعَابِدِ

  until it enters the second sense of the word "slave", which is the sense of "worshipper".

  حَتَّى — until. The particle 'until', which marks a limit or endpoint of the preceding action and can shift the following verb's mood. Here it sets the boundary the discussion runs up to, introducing the clause that states that endpoint.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• وَجِهَادٌ فِي سَبِيلِهِ فَتَرَبَّصُوا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ﴾

  And striving in His cause, so wait until Allah brings about by His command.

  حَتَّى — until. This particle, 'until', sets a limit or goal and pushes the verb after it into the subjunctive, marking the coming action as the endpoint being awaited. It links the waiting to its terminus, telling the listener what is being waited for.

  From: Faith and Worship →

• فَيَسْتَجِرُّهُمْ حَتَّى يَرْكَبَ رَقَبَاتِهِمْ

  So he drags them along until he rides on their necks.

  حَتَّى — until. This is a subordinating particle, 'until/to the point that', that introduces a goal or endpoint and pushes the following verb into the subjunctive. Its job is to mark what comes as the outcome being reached. The clipped/altered ending on the next verb is its direct effect.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• حَتَّى يُسَلِّمُهُ إِلَى الْفَضَائِحِ الَّتِي يَتَعَجَّلُهَا

  until he hands him over to the scandals he rushes into

  حَتَّى — until. This is the particle 'until/to the point that', introducing an endpoint and pushing the following verb into the subjunctive. Its job is to mark what comes as the goal reached. The altered ending on the next verb is its direct effect.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• مَا يَتِمُّ عَقْلُ اِمْرِئٍ حَتَّى يَكُونَ فِيهِ عَشَرُ خِصَالٍ

  A person's intellect is not complete until he has ten qualities.

  حَتَّى — until. A subordinating word meaning 'until/up to the point that', which both sets a limit and pushes the verb after it into the subjunctive, changing its ending. It marks the threshold the intellect must reach. After this word Arabic shifts the verb's mood, which is how the listener hears the condition as a goal not yet met.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• آكِلٌ مِنْ كِيسِي وَمِنْ كِسْوَتِي حَتَّى لَقَدْ أَوْجَعَنِي ضِرْسِي

  I ate from my purse and from my clothes until my molar ached.

  حَتَّى — until. A particle meaning 'until / to the point that', here marking the extent the eating reached. Its job is to push the clause to a limit, 'so far that...', setting up the consequence stated next rather than naming a thing.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →

• فَقَالَ اِذْهَبْ حَتَّى تَدْخُلَ بَيْنَ ظُهْرَانِيِ الْقَوْمِ

  He said, "Go until you enter among the backs of the people."

  حَتَّى — until. This is the particle 'until', and its job here is to mark a goal or endpoint and to push the verb after it into its 'aim' (subjunctive) shape. It tells you the going continues up to the point of entering. It is the trigger that reshapes the next verb's ending.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• فَانْطَلَقْتُ حَتَّى دَخَلْتُ بَيْنَ ظُهُورِ الْقَوْمِ

  So I set out and entered between the backs of the people.

  حَتَّى — until. This is the particle 'until', marking the endpoint the setting-out runs to. With a past-tense verb after it (rather than a 'to do' goal), it reads as 'until I actually...', reporting a reached result. It links the going to its completion.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ وَجَاءَ السَحَرُ قَامَ أَبُو سُفْيَانُ

  When dawn arrived, Abu Sufyan stood up.

  حَتَّى — until. This is the particle 'until', here opening a time-frame that runs up to a turning point in the story. Working with the 'when' that follows, it sets the stage for what happens at dawn. It links the ongoing scene to the moment things change.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• فَجَعَلَ يَضْحَكُ حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَواجِذُهُ

  Then he began to laugh until his molars showed.

  حَتَّى — until. This is the particle 'until', here meaning 'to the point that', opening a clause that shows how far the laughing went. It marks the following as the visible result of the laughter. It links the laughing to its telling extent.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →

• حَتَّى صَارَ عَلَمًا مِنْ أَعْلَامِ بَغْدَادِ،

  until he became one of the leading figures of Baghdad.

  حَتَّى — until. A conjunction meaning 'until', here marking the point things reached as a result. It introduces an outcome clause, signalling that what follows is the culmination of the crowding and learning described before. It frames the next verb as the endpoint the situation built up to.

  From: Public Preaching →