إِلَٰهًاa god

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ تَعَالَى وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ

  And the Exalted said: And those who do not call upon any other god with Allah, and do not take the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, and do not commit adultery.

  إِلَٰهًا — a god. An indefinite noun 'a god' (no al- 'the'), the object of 'invoke' in the accusative (object) form. Its indefinite shape keeps it general - any other deity at all. As the thing wrongly invoked it is what the negated verb would act upon.

  From: The Gravity of Murder →