هَيْهَاتَby no means

Example sentences

• هَيْهَاتَ وَاللَّهِ، لَقَدْ ظَنَّ أَكْذَبَ الظَّنَّ،

  By no means, by God, he truly thought the most false thought.

  هَيْهَاتَ — By no means. A frozen exclamation meaning 'far be it! / never!', used to dismiss the whole idea as utterly out of reach. It is not an ordinary verb or noun but a fixed cry of rejection, throwing out the notion that any of those means could save him.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →

• هَيْهَاتَ، رَحَلَ كُلٌّ بِمَا فِيهِ، فَلَيْتَ اَلذُّنُوبَ إِذَا تَخَلَّتْ خَلَتْ

  Alas! Everything has departed with what is in it; I wish that the sins, when they depart, would vanish.

  هَيْهَاتَ — Alas!. A fixed exclamation of dismissal meaning roughly 'far off!' or 'alas!'. It is a frozen interjection, not a regular noun or verb, used to open the line with a cry of lament; it stands on its own without governing anything.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →