اِشْتَغَلَ was occupied in Arabic
اِشْتَغَلَ is how you say “was occupied” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَلَكِنْ اِشْتَغَلَ بِمُهَاوْشَتِهِ عَنِ الصَّفِّ الْأَوَّلِ،
But he was so occupied with his bickering that he was kept from the first row.
اِشْتَغَلَ was occupied
A derived (form VIII) completed-action verb 'he busied himself / got distracted', with its 'he' subject (the man) inside. It is the main verb of the 'but' clause, stating what actually occupied him. What distracted him is introduced by the bi- on the next word.
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فَإِنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ وَاِشْتَغَلَ لِمَا هُوَ بِصَدَدِهِ،
If, however, he turns away from it and becomes occupied with what occupies him,
وَاِشْتَغَلَ and becomes occupied
The wa- joins a second action of the man, 'and busied himself', pairing it with the turning-away. The verb is a derived (form VIII) past 'he occupied himself'. So the connector links the two: he both shuns the distraction and gets absorbed in his real task.
فَاشْتَغَلَ هَذَا بِكُتُبِ الْفَلَاسِفَةِ،
This man busied himself with the books of the philosophers.
فَاشْتَغَلَ so busied himself
This verb opens with an attached 'so' marking it as the next consequence, and the verb itself is a reflexive-flavoured form meaning to occupy oneself, with its 'he' subject built in. The joined particle ties it to the prior sentence as a result. The form's pattern carries the 'busied himself' sense.
أَشْتَغِلُ بِالْعِلْمِ الْيَوْمَ،
I will occupy myself with knowledge today,
أَشْتَغِلُ I will occupy myself
A present-tense verb in the 'I' shape, its first-person subject built into the prefix, read here as a near-future intention. Inside the quoted self-talk, it states the scholar's plan, the resolve he announces to himself before the rest of the line qualifies it.