سُئِلَwas asked

Example sentences

• فَلَوْ سُئِلَ الْجُزْعُ مِنْ أَبِيكِ لَقَالَ الْعَجْزَ

  So if impatience were asked by your father, it would say helplessness.

  سُئِلَ — was asked. A passive completed-action verb ('were asked'): the subject RECEIVES the questioning rather than asks. Arabic marks this passive by reshaping inner vowels, so no helper word and no named asker.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →

• وَلَوْ سُئِلَ الْكَيْسُ مِنْ أَبِيكِ لَقَالَ الصَّبْرَ

  And if the prudent one were asked by your father, he would say patience.

  سُئِلَ — was asked. A passive completed-action verb ('were asked'): the subject undergoes the questioning. The passive is marked by inner vowel change, leaving the asker unnamed.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →

• سُئِلَ بَعْضُ الْحُكَمَاءِ مَا الْحِكْمَةُ

  Some of the wise were asked, 'What is wisdom?'

  سُئِلَ — was asked. This verb is passive, 'was asked': the wise are the ones questioned, while who put the question is left out. Arabic marks the passive not with a helper word like 'was' but by reshaping the verb's inner vowels, so the form sits close to its active twin but flips the roles.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →