مَحَارِمِيmy forbidden things

Example sentences

• وَيَغْضَبُونَ لِمَحَارِمِي إِذَا اِسْتُحِلَّتْ كَمًّا يَغْضَبُ النَّمِرُ إِذَا حُرِبَ

  And they become angry for my forbidden things when they are treated as permissible, just as the tiger becomes angry when it is attacked.

  لِمَحَارِمِي — for my forbidden things. The li- prefix is a preposition meaning 'for/on behalf of', and it governs the noun it attaches to, here marking the cause of the anger. Glued to the end is -i, the 'my' possessor. So one word carries 'for', 'forbidden things', and 'my', with li- pinning down what the anger is in defence of.

  From: Under God's Shield →