ليسis not

Example sentences

• وَلَيْسَ بِشَاغِلٍ يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ كَنَفْسِكَ الَّتِي هِيَ بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْكَ

  And nothing can distract you from Allah like your own self between your sides.

  وَلَيْسَ — And is not. 'wa-' = 'and'; 'laysa' = 'is not, there is not', a negating verb.

  From: Taming the Lower Self →

• وَقسم سِيبَوَيْهٍ الْكَلَام إِلَى اسْم وَفعل وحرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم وَلَا فعل،

  And Sibawayh divided speech into noun, verb, and letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun or a verb.

  لَيْسَ — not. 'is not' — the one-word 'is-not' verb, opening the defining 'neither a noun nor a verb'. Its predicate takes a special 'bi' next.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• لَكِن خَاصَّة الثَّالِث أَنه حرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم

  But specifically the third, it is a letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun.

  لَيْسَ — not. 'is not' — the 'is-not' verb opening the defining exclusion 'not a noun'. Its predicate takes the emphatic 'bi' next.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• الْحبّ غَدِير فِي صحراء لَيست عَلَيْهِ جادة

  Love is a spring in the desert without a path leading to it.

  لَيْسَتْ — she is not. The present-negation verb 'is not' with the feminine '-at' tail agreeing with 'desert', opening a description of it. It raises its subject ('a path') to the nominative.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• لَيْسَ للعابد مستراح إِلَّا تَحت شَجَرَة طُوبَى

  For the worshipper, there is no resting place except under the Tree of Tuba.

  لَيْسَ — not. The present-negation verb 'there is not', which raises its delayed subject to the nominative. It opens 'the worshipper has no rest except…'.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• والبعد مِنْهُ لَيْسَ فِي أعدائك أضرّ عَلَيْك مِنْك

  And being far from Him — among your enemies, none is more harmful to you than yourself.

  لَيْسَ — is not. The present-negation verb 'there is not', raising its later subject to the nominative. It opens 'among your enemies none is more harmful…'.

  From: Love and Devotion to God →

• فيهم فلان ليس منهم، إنما جاء لحاجة،

  Among them is so-and-so who is not one of them; he only came for a need.

  لَيْسَ — is not. This is the negating verb 'is not' — denying that the man belongs. Unlike particle-negators it behaves like a verb. Its predicate follows.

  From: Where Angels Gather →

• فَقَالَ لَيْسَ بِكَلَامِي وَلَا كَلَامِ صَاحِبِي، هَذَا كَلَامُ اللَّهِ

  He replied: 'It is neither my word nor the word of my companion; this is the word of Allah.'

  لَيْسَ — It is neither. A special verb meaning 'is not', used to deny a present state. Unlike a mere particle, it behaves like a verb and reshapes what follows accordingly. Here it negates the claim that the speech belongs to the speaker, 'it is not...'.

  From: The Messenger as Conveyor of Revelation →

• فليس له إلا الرضا والتسليم

  so he has nothing but acceptance and submission.

  فَلَيْسَ — so not. A special negating verb, 'there is not', fused with the connector 'so'. Unlike the particle 'not', this is a verb that denies existence or possession, and it reshapes the sentence around it; here it sets up 'he has nothing but...'.

  From: Trusting God's Decree →