THE 4TH FORM OF THE ARABIC VERB/NOUN
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THE 4th FORM OF THE ARABIC VERB
PASS . PART. ACT. PART. NOUN COMMAND PRESENT TENSE PAST TENSE FORM
4
A STATE OF BECOMING, CAUSATION, DYNAMIC, SOMETIMES CAUSED BY ALLAH
A STATE OF BECOMING, CAUSATION, DYNAMIC, SOMETIMES CAUSED BY ALLAHEXAMPLES OF THE 4th FORM IN THE GLORIOUS QUR?AAN
Qad af-la-hahl-mu?me-noon
The Honorable Abdullah Yusuf Ali translates The Glorious Qur?aan, 231 into English as ?The believers must (eventually) win through." A recent revision of his translation of this verse reads, "Successful indeed are the believers." In examining this verse with knowledge of the verb form 4, it is readily understood that is conveying, in terms of an English translation No doubt the believers have already won! The 4th form past tense verb, is on the pattern of . (See 10 forms of the Verb chart) This word, can translate into English as he was caused to be successful. The particle qad, means "no doubt" in this instance. Thus, we derive at the meaning
"No doubt the believers have already won!"The verses from The Qur?aan following 231, that is 232,3,4,5,8,9 indicate what believers must do to attain success. In Arabic, the 4th form sometimes means past, present and future, at the same time or explained another way, has no tense connotation. Also, the causation of Allah is sometimes indicated in the 4th form patterns. In summing up this verse, in light of the succeeding verses, it seems Allah, Highly Glorified is He, is declaring that the believers who engage themselves as indicated by verses, 232,3,4,5,8,9 are successful now, were successful in the past and are successful in the future.
Muslim is on the 4th form, active participle pattern. Islam is on the 4th form verbal noun pattern. See on the 10 forms chart, page 148.No one can grasp His vision. His grasp is over all vision and
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