إِلَٰهٌgod

Example sentences

• فقال أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأنك رسوله

  Then he said: I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah, and that you are His messenger.

  لَا إِلَٰهَ — there is no deity. la = 'no' (absolute); ilah = 'deity, god' — together 'there is no god' (the opening of the testimony of faith).

  From: Early Converts to Islam →

• ﴿فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ الْمَلِكُ الْحَقُّ لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْكَرِيمِ﴾

  Exalted is Allah, the True Sovereign; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.

  إِلَٰهَ — deity. This noun, deity, is the thing being categorically denied, and it takes a bare accusative ending with no nunation because the total-denial construction demands exactly that shape. So its form itself signals that not a single such thing exists.

  From: False Prophets →