خَلَاexcept

Example sentences

• وَقَوله أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل

  And his saying: "The best word said by a poet is the word of Labid: Behold, everything other than Allah is futile."

  خَلَا — except. Paired with 'ma' as 'except' — literally 'it was void of', a frozen verb used to mean 'apart from'. Together 'ma khala' = 'all but'.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل

  "The best phrase the poet Labid said: 'Indeed, everything besides Allah is false.'"

  خَلَا — except. Paired with 'ma' as 'except' — literally 'it was void of', a frozen verb meaning 'apart from'.

  From: Small Deeds, Great Reward →

• كُنْتُمْ إِذَا خَلَوْتُمْ بَارَزْتُمُونِي بِالْعَظَائِمِ،

  When you were alone, you would boldly commit great sins against Me,

  خَلَوْتُمْ — you were alone. A past-tense verb, 'you were alone', with a plural 'you' subject in its ending. It states the recurring situation the 'whenever' introduces.

  From: Turned Away at the Gate →

• وأقر بالعجز فخلا لي المعترك،

  And they acknowledged their inability, so the battlefield was left to me.

  فَخَلَا — so was left. The prefix fa- opens the result: because they conceded, the arena was emptied. The past-tense verb carries its subject inside its form, and the sense is that the place 'became free / vacant' for the speaker, a state-change packed into one verb.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →

• وَخَلَا الطَّرِيقُ لَا يَمُرُّ فِيهِ أَحَدٌ،

  And the road lay deserted; no one passed along it.

  وَخَلاَ — and lay deserted. The leading 'wa-' (and) joins this clause to the narrative, fused onto a past-tense verb whose 'he' subject is built in. The chunk both links the events and reports the road's emptying. The named subject, the road, follows the verb.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →