بُشِّرَwas given glad tidings

Example sentences

• وَلَقَدْ بُشِّرَ الصَّابِرُونَ بِثَلَاثٍ كُلُّ مِنْهَا خَيْرٌ مِمَّا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا يَتَحَاسَدُونَ

  And indeed the patient ones were given glad tidings of three things, each of which is better than what the people of the world compete over.

  بُشِّرَ — was given glad tidings. A passive-pattern completed-action verb: the patient ones RECEIVE the glad tidings rather than give them. Arabic marks this passive by reshaping the verb's inner vowels, not by adding a helper word, so the doer goes unnamed.

  From: Patience and God's Help →