نِدٌّequal

Example sentences

• أَحَدُهُمَا أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَيَعْبُدَ غَيْرَهُ مِنْ حَجَرٍ أَوْ شَجَرٍ أَوْ شَمْسٍ أَوْ قَمَرٍ أَوْ نَبِيٍّ أَوْ شَيْخٍ أَوْ نَجْمٍ أَوْ مَلَكٍ أَوْ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ،

  One of them is to set up for Allah an equal and worship something else, such as a stone, tree, sun, moon, prophet, saint, star, angel, or anything else.

  نِدًّا — an equal. A bare indefinite noun, 'a rival/equal', the object of 'sets up'. Without 'the' it means any such rival, and its ending marks it the thing set up against Allah.

  From: The Sin of Idolatry →