ضَيَّعْتwaste

Example sentences

• فَإِن أضعته أضعت سعادتك ونجاتك

  If you waste it, you waste your happiness and salvation.

  أَضَعْتَهُ — you waste it. The '-ta' is the subject 'you' and '-hu' the object 'it', your lifespan; the a-prefixed verb means 'let go to waste'. Past in form, it serves here as the 'if you waste it' condition.

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• فَإِن أضعته أضعت سعادتك ونجاتك

  If you waste it, you waste your happiness and salvation.

  أَضَعْتَ — you waste. The same verb repeated, now as the result: 'then you have wasted...'. Arabic often answers an 'if' with a matching past-form verb, the repetition itself binding cause to consequence.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →