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حِيْلَةٍ a stratagem in Arabic

حِيْلَةٍ is how you say “a stratagem” in Arabic.

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وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَالْحَرْثَ فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ حِيْلَةٍ غِيَارٍ،

And the branded horses, the livestock, and the cultivated fields — desires have a deceitful device for substitution.

حِيْلَةٍ a stratagem

An indefinite noun meaning a ruse or device, here the subject of a verbless 'X has Y' statement — 'the desires have a stratagem'. Arabic states possession by placing the 'for ...' phrase first and the possessed thing after, with no verb. Its indefiniteness keeps the trick unspecified.

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