لَأَعْصِيَI do disobey

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ يَقُولُ إِنِّي لَأَعْصِيَ اللَّهَ، فَأَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَلْقِ دَابَّتِي وَجَارِيَتِي

  Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad used to say: I do disobey God, and I perceive that in the nature of my mount and my female servant.

  لَأَعْصِيَ — I do disobey. An emphatic 'surely' fused to the front of a first-person present verb, 'I do indeed disobey'. The 'surely' is an intensifier owned by the opening 'truly' frame, doubling down on the admission. The verb's 'I' subject is built into its form, so the bundle stresses the speaker's own disobedience.

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