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أَضَلَّ lead astray in Arabic

أَضَلَّ is how you say “lead astray” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وأضل عباده واستباح دماء من كذبه وحريمهم وأموالهم

And leads His servants astray and permits the blood of those who deny him, and their sanctities and wealth.

وَأَضَلَّ And leads astray

The conjunction joins on a past-tense verb on the causative pattern, he led astray, the doer carried inside. The causative shape means to make someone go astray rather than to go astray oneself, a meaning built into the verb's vowels.

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وَقَدْ أَضَلَّهُ فِي أَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ

And he had led him astray in a desolate land.

أَضَلَّهُ led him astray

This is a causative past verb meaning 'made him stray', with an attached object pronoun 'him' on the end. The verb's pattern carries a 'cause to' sense, so it is not just wandering but the loss being brought about, and the suffix names who was led astray.

From The Joy of Repentance

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