أَضَلَّlead astray

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: False Prophets →

• 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 →