عَوْجًاin a crooked way

Example sentences

• يَصُدُّ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغِيهَا جُهْدُهُ عَوْجًا وَتَحْرِيفًا

  He turns people away from the way of God and, by his effort, seeks to bend and distort it.

  عَوْجًا — in a crooked way. An indefinite noun in the accusative working as an adverbial of manner, 'crookedly'. The accusative is Arabic's way of turning a noun into a 'how' description, so it tells you in what manner he seeks to bend the path.

  From: Three States of the Heart →