إِيَّاكُمْbeware

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالشِّرْكَ الْأَصْغَرَ

  And he said: 'Beware of minor shirk.'

  إِيَّاكُمْ — beware. A special warning form built on a detached 'you' pronoun, meaning 'beware / guard yourselves'. This fixed cautioning construction puts the listeners on guard and takes the thing to avoid as its object.

  From: The Hidden Idolatry →

• وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ

  And beware of lying.

  وَإِيَّاكُمْ — and beware of you. The 'and' is a prefix on a special warning word built from a standalone 'you' form, meaning 'beware, you all'. This is a fixed cautioning construction that uses the isolated pronoun to put the listener on guard, a frame English renders with 'beware of'.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• عَصَمْنَا اللَّهُ وَإِّيَّاكُمْ مِنْ فِتْنَتِهِ عِصْمَةٌ يُدْخِلُنَا بِهَا فِي رَحْمَتِهِ

  May Allah protect us and you from His trials with a protection that brings us by it into His mercy.

  وَإِيَّاكُم — and you. This fuses wa- 'and' with a standalone object pronoun, 'you (plural)'. Arabic uses this special detached pronoun to carry an object when it cannot attach directly to the verb, so it adds 'and you' to the 'us' already inside the verb: 'protect us and you'.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →