اتَّقِfear

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ شَيْخٌ يَدُورُ فِي الْمَجَالِسِ وَيَقُولُ مَنْ سَرُّهُ أَنْ تَدُومَ لَهُ الْعَافِيَةُ، فَلْيَتَّقِ اللَّهَ

  There was a sheikh who went from gathering to gathering and would say: Whoever wants his well-being to last, let him fear God.

  فَلْيَتَّقِ — so let him fear. A cluster: a 'so/then' link, an exhortation particle 'let', and a command-style verb in its clipped jussive form. The 'so' answers the 'whoever', so it is the 'then' of the rule, and 'let' turns the verb into a third-person command, 'let him fear', the trimmed ending marking it as governed by that particle.

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