أَشْرَكْنَاassociate

Example sentences

• ﴿لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا أَشْرَكْنَا وَلَا آبَاءُنَا وَلَا حُرِمْنَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ﴾

  If God had willed, we would not have associated partners, nor would our fathers, nor would we have been deprived of anything.

  أَشْرَكْنَا — we associated partners. A past-tense verb with a tail -na, 'we', as subject, 'we associated partners'. Negated by the particle before it within the counterfactual, it names the deed that supposedly would not have occurred had God willed otherwise.

  From: Patience Under Decree →