إِذاwhen

Example sentences

• وَإِذا تجلى بِصفة السّمع وَالْبَصَر وَالْعلم

  And when He manifests in the attributes of hearing, seeing, and knowledge.

  وَإِذا — And when. 'And' plus the 'whenever' word, a recurring case with its result to follow. It frames each time He manifests in these attributes.

  From: Humility Before the Divine →

• كان الرجل ممن كان قبلكم إذا ثقل عليه الحديث قال

  A man among those before you, when the speech became heavy upon him, would say

  إِذا — when. This is the 'when, whenever' particle that introduces a recurring condition: every time the thing happens, the result follows. Unlike a one-off 'when', it pairs naturally with the habitual frame to mean 'whenever it would happen'. It governs the clause that follows it as the trigger half of the pattern.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →

• اعْلَم يَا أخي أَن العَبْد إِذا اعْتصمَ بِحَبل السُّلْطَان الْمَخْلُوق سلم من شَرّ الظَّالِمين

  Know, my brother, that if a servant clings to the rope of the created ruler, he is safe from the evil of the oppressors.

  إِذا — if. This is the conditional 'when/if' that sets up a situation and waits for its result clause to follow. It frames everything after it as the condition whose outcome the sentence will then deliver.

  From: Ten Daily Supplications →