خَفِّfear

Example sentences

• وخف التعطيل فإنه إذا اعتقد آذى المشبهة عبدة الأصنام وإبراهيم يجعلهم جذاذا والمعطلة يدخلون بينكم ويتخللون ثم يتسللون منكم لواذا،

  And fear negation, for if it is believed, it harms those who liken, the worshippers of idols, and Ibrahim made them fragments. The deniers infiltrate among you, intermingle and then slip away from you unnoticed.

  وَخَفِّ — and fear. This is wa- joined to a command, 'and fear / be wary of'. The doubled middle consonant marks an intensive verb pattern, so the order is to guard against the thing strongly, addressed to a single listener understood from the form.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →