شَرَكَassociate

Example sentences

• وَهُوَ أَن يعبد الله وَحده لايشرك بِهِ شَيْئا

  And it means to worship Allah alone, associating nothing with Him.

  يُشْرِكَ — associate. The verb 'associate a partner with God'; its subjunctive ending continues from the 'to worship... not associating' construction. It is the exact technical opposite of tawhid.

  From: Worship God Alone →

• وَمِن فَاتَهُ هَذَا التَّوْحِيد فَإِن الله لَا يغْفر أَن يُشْرك بِهِ

  And whoever misses this monotheism, indeed Allah does not forgive associating others with Him.

  يُشْرَكَ — to associate partners. Crucially this is the PASSIVE — 'that partners be associated', not 'that he associates'. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the vowels inside the verb (note it differs from the active 'yushrik'); the subjunctive ending comes from the 'an' before it.

  From: Worship God Alone →

• وقال بعضهم فلعلهم الذين ولدوا في الإسلام، فلم يشركوا بالله شيئاً وذكروا أشياء

  and some of them said: Perhaps they are those born in Islam who never associated anything with Allah – and they mentioned other things –

  يُشْرِكُوا — they associate. A Form IV verb 'associate partners [with God]', clipped into the jussive by 'lam' and read as a past negative — 'never ascribed partners'. The '-u' carries 'they'. It pairs with the preposition next.

  From: Those Who Enter Without Account →