سُلِّطَwas set upon in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَسُلِّطَ عَلَى قَلْبِهِ أَرْبَعَةُ أَعْدَاءٍ

  And four enemies were set upon his heart.

  وَسُلِّطَ — and was set upon. The verb here is passive: the four enemies receive the action of being set, while who does the setting is left unnamed. Arabic builds this passive not with a helper word like English 'were' but by reshaping the vowels inside the verb itself. The leading wa- ties this whole statement to the preceding line as another item in the account.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →