فَلَيْتَI wish

Example sentences

• هَيْهَاتَ، رَحَلَ كُلٌّ بِمَا فِيهِ، فَلَيْتَ اَلذُّنُوبَ إِذَا تَخَلَّتْ خَلَتْ

  Alas! Everything has departed with what is in it; I wish that the sins, when they depart, would vanish.

  فَلَيْتَ — I wish. The connector fa- ('so') fused to a wishing particle that means 'if only/would that'. The particle expresses an unreal longing and forces the noun after it into the accusative as the thing wished about; the fa- chains this wish onto the lament.

  From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →