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حَلْق slitting the throat in Arabic

حَلْق is how you say “slitting the throat” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فِي عَاجِلِ الدُّنْيَا كَالْجَلْدَ وَالرِّجَامَ وَالْحَلْقَ

In the immediate worldly life, such as flogging, stoning, and slitting the throat.

وَالْحَلْقَ and slitting the throat

The wa- coordinates this as a third item in the example list, sharing the (genitive) governed by 'such as'. Its al- makes it definite. It adds a further sample of the worldly punishments named.

From On Reason and Temptation

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