يَزَاوِلُhe will assail

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُ لَيَزَاوِلُهُ بِكُلِّ حِيلَةٍ

  And that he will assail him with every trick.

  لَيَزَاوِلُهُ — indeed he will assail him. The prefixed l- here is an emphatic 'surely/indeed', stressing the verb it rides; that verb is present-tense and carries an attached object '-him' at its end. So one word holds the emphasis, the verb, and its object together. The emphatic l- underlines the certainty of the assailing.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →