تَعُودُyou return

Example sentences

• وَهَذَا آخِرُ ثَلاَثِ مَرَّاتٍ أَنَّكَ تَزْعُمُ لَا تَعُودُ ثُمَّ تَعُودُ

  And this is the last of three times that you claim you will not return, and then you return.

  تَعُودُ — you return. A present-tense verb with its 'you' subject in the prefix, negated by the particle before it inside the captive's claim, 'you will not return'. It is the promise that, the Prophet notes, keeps being broken.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَهَذَا آخِرُ ثَلاَثِ مَرَّاتٍ أَنَّكَ تَزْعُمُ لَا تَعُودُ ثُمَّ تَعُودُ

  And this is the last of three times that you claim you will not return, and then you return.

  تَعُودُ — you return. A present-tense verb with its 'you' subject in the prefix, repeating 'you return' to drive home that the deed contradicts the promise. The repetition itself is the rhetorical point: claimed never, yet done again.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →